April 27th at 12 pm, don’t miss Karen Duff’s “Tauopathy in Alzheimer´s disease and Frontotemporal dementia” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.
Professor Duff is the Centre Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London and Professor Emerita, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.
She received her PhD from Sydney Brenner’s department at the University of Cambridge. She undertook postdoc positions in London with Alison Goate and John Hardy at the University of South Florida. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, Associate Professor at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, and Professor at the New York University Nathan Kline Institute. Deputy director of the Taub Institute at Columbia University from 2006 – 2019.
Professor Duff explores disease mechanisms and test therapeutic approaches to Alzheimer’s disease, FTD and other dementias. Her current interests are exploring the mechanisms involved in the spread of pathogenic proteins within the brain, understanding the basis of selective cellular vulnerability and resilience to tauopathy and developing new mouse and cell models to understand the earliest stages in tau pathogenesis.
