Professor Steve Gentleman

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences

Professor of Neuropathology

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Location

E408Burlington DanesHammersmith Campus

Summary

Steve Gentleman is Professor of Neuropathology in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London. Over the past 20 years he has run an active research team investigating the pathology of neurodegenerative disease and traumatic brain injury. In some of his early work he identified pathological changes in the brains of people who had died of a serious head injury which were very similar to those seen in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.This link, based on inflammatory mechanisms, is still the focus of research for his research team in collaboration with colleagues throughout the UK and USA. He also discovered that damage to the processes of nerve cells as a result of head injury was far more common than originally thought. In more recent years he has been part of a European consortium of neuropathologists who have been working to standardise the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. Using this expertise he provides diagnostic support for the Parkinson’s UK and Multiple Sclerosis Society Tissue Banks at Imperial and is a member of the Medical Research Council Brain Bank Network management committee.

In addition to his research interests Steve has key teaching roles in the faculty of Medicine. He is the leader for the Life Cycle and Regulatory Systems theme and the course leader for a number of subjects including neuroscience, head and neck anatomy and aspects of the Neuroscience BSc. In addition he is the Director of Education for the Department of Medicine.

Current funding

National Institute on Aging (US)
UK Multiple Sclerosis Society
Parkinson's UK
Alzheimer Society/BUPA

Key research areas

Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, neurodegeneration, inflammation, brain banking

Publications

Journals

Feleke R, Reynolds RH, Smith AM, et al.Feleke R, Reynolds RH, Smith AM, Tilley B, Taliun SAG, Hardy J, Matthews PM, Gentleman S, Owen DR, Johnson MR, Srivastava PK, Ryten M close, 2021, Cross-platform transcriptional profiling identifies common and distinct molecular pathologies in Lewy body diseases, Acta Neuropathologica, ISSN:0001-6322

Calsolaro V, Matthews PM, Donat CK, et al.Calsolaro V, Matthews PM, Donat CK, Livingston NR, Femminella GD, Guedes SS, Myers J, Fan Z, Tyacke RJ, Venkataraman AV, Perneczky R, Gunn R, Rabiner EA, Gentleman S, Parker CA, Murphy PS, Wren PB, Hinz R, Sastre M, Nutt DJ, Edison P close, 2021, Astrocyte reactivity with late onset cognitive impairment assessed in-vivo using 11C-BU99008 PET and its relationship with amyloid load, Molecular Psychiatry, ISSN:1359-4184

de Pablo-Fernandez E, Courtney R, Rockliffe A, et al.de Pablo-Fernandez E, Courtney R, Rockliffe A, Gentleman S, Holton JL, Warner TT close, 2021, Faster disease progression in Parkinson's disease with type 2 diabetes is not associated with increased alpha-synuclein, tau, amyloid-beta or vascular pathology, Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, ISSN:0305-1846

Ries M, Watts H, Mota B, et al.Ries M, Watts H, Mota B, Yanez Lopez M, Donat C, Baxan N, Pickering J, Chau TSZ, Semmler A, Gurung B, Aleksynas R, Abelleira Hervas L, Iqbal S, Romero-Molina C, Hernandez Mir G, d'Amati A, Reutelingsperger C, Goldfinger M, Gentleman S, Van Leuven F, Solito E, Sastre M close, 2021, Annexin-A1 restores cerebrovascular integrity concomitant with reduced amyloid-β and tau pathology, Brain: a Journal of Neurology, Vol:144, ISSN:0006-8950, Pages:1526-1541

Chia R, Sabir MS, Bandres-Ciga S, et al.Chia R, Sabir MS, Bandres-Ciga S, Saez-Atienzar S, Reynolds RH, Gustavsson E, Walton RL, Ahmed S, Viollet C, Ding J, Makarious MB, Diez-Fairen M, Portley MK, Shah Z, Abramzon Y, Hernandez DG, Blauwendraat C, Stone DJ, Eicher J, Parkkinen L, Ansorge O, Clark L, Honig LS, Marder K, Lemstra A, St George-Hyslop P, Londos E, Morgan K, Lashley T, Warner TT, Jaunmuktane Z, Galasko D, Santana I, Tienari PJ, Myllykangas L, Oinas M, Cairns NJ, Morris JC, Halliday GM, Van Deerlin VM, Trojanowski JQ, Grassano M, Calvo A, Mora G, Canosa A, Floris G, Bohannan RC, Brett F, Gan-Or Z, Geiger JT, Moore A, May P, Kruger R, Goldstein DS, Lopez G, Tayebi N, Sidransky E, Norcliffe-Kaufmann L, Palma J-A, Kaufmann H, Shakkottai VG, Perkins M, Newell KL, Gasser T, Schulte C, Landi F, Salvi E, Cusi D, Masliah E, Kim RC, Caraway CA, Monuki ES, Brunetti M, Dawson TM, Rosenthal LS, Albert MS, Pletnikova O, Troncoso JC, Flanagan ME, Mao Q, Bigio EH, Rodriguez-Rodriguez E, Infante J, Lage C, Gonzalez-Aramburu I, Sanchez-Juan P, Ghetti B, Keith J, Black SE, Masellis M, Rogaeva E, Duyckaerts C, Brice A, Lesage S, Xiromerisiou G, Barrett MJ, Tilley BS, Gentleman S, Logroscino G, Serrano GE, Beach TG, McKeith IG, Thomas AJ, Attems J, Morris CM, Palmer L, Love S, Troakes C, Al-Sarraj S, Hodges AK, Aarsland D, Klein G, Kaiser SM, Woltjer R, Pastor P, Bekris LM, Leverenz JB, Besser LM, Kuzma A, Renton AE, Goate A, Bennett DA, Scherzer CR, Morris HR, Ferrari R, Albani D, Pickering-Brown S, Faber K, Kukull WA, Morenas-Rodriguez E, Lleo A, Fortea J, Alcolea D, Clarimon J, Nalls MA, Ferrucci L, Resnick SM, Tanaka T, Foroud TM, Graff-Radford NR, Wszolek ZK, Ferman T, Boeve BF, Hardy JA, Topol EJ, Torkamani A, Singleton AB, Ryten M, Dickson DW, Chio A, Ross OA, Gibbs JR, Dalgard CL, Traynor BJ, Scholz SW close, 2021, Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture, Nature Genetics, Vol:53, ISSN:1061-4036, Pages:294-+

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