9^th Global Pathologists Congress

Biography

I started my research career during Medical School in Göttingen, at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry with Professor Creutzfeldt, where I studied the projection of the thalamocortical auditory system in the cat, resulting in several research publications as first author. During my postgraduate training in Neuropathology, I joined the Institute of Neuropathology in Zurich, where I started my research on prion disease, resulting in seminal publications in Nature and PNAS. After qualifying as a Consultant Neuropathologist in 1998, I established my own research group and developed mouse models to study neural development and brain tumours. In 2001, I was recruited through the MRC international recruitment scheme to join the MRC Prion Unit at UCL Institute of Neurology. In 2004 I was appointed as Chair of Neuropathology and Head of the Division of Neuropathology at Queen Square, one of the largest academic neuropathology departments in the UK. At the MRC Prion Unit and the Institute of Neurology I integrated clinical neuropathology with experimental models on neurodegenerative diseases including prion diseases, which still remain a strong focus in my highly collaborative research. I am an expert on the pathology of both human and experimental models of prion disease worldwide and I maintains a close collaboration with the MRC Prion Unit and the National Prion Clinic at the National Hospital, Queen Square.

Research Interest

Neuropathology