Bart De Strooper
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Professor Bart De Strooper is the founding director of the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI).
He is a researcher in Alzheimer's disease, and supervises laboratories based in the UK DRI at the Francis Crick Institute in London and in the VIB laboratory at the KU Leuven in Belgium.
Bart De Strooper’s research is focussed on translating genetic findings into mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and drug targets. He is best known for his work on the presenilins and gamma-secretase, and more recently for his work on the cellular theory of Alzheimer’s Disease. He was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship in 2020, and has received several awards including the Potamkin prize, the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research, Alois Alzheimer’s prize, the highly prestigious Brain Prize 2018 and Commander in the Order of Leopold I.
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- Acta Neuropathologica (3)
- Acta Neuropathologica Communications (2)
- Alzheimer's & Dementia (2)
- Alzheimer's and Dementia (3)
- Alzheimer's Research and Therapy (1)
- Analytical Chemistry (1)
- Behavioural Brain Research (1)
- Blood (1)
- Brain (2)
- Cell (4)
- Cell Reports (6)
- Cell Stem Cell (1)
- Chembiochem (1)
- Chemical Communications (1)
- Diabetes (1)
- eLife (1)
- EMBO Molecular Medicine (4)
- eNeuro (1)
- European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (1)
- Fluids and Barriers of the CNS (2)
- Glia (1)
- Human Molecular Genetics (1)
- iScience (1)
- JAMA (1)
- Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (2)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry (4)
- Journal of Cell Biology (1)
- Journal of Cell Science (2)
- Journal of Experimental Medicine (1)
- Lancet Neurology (1)
- Life Science Alliance (1)
- Molecular Cell (1)
- Molecular Neurodegeneration (7)
- Nature (2)
- Nature Communications (3)
- Nature Immunology (2)
- Nature Neuroscience (2)
- Neurobiology of Aging (1)
- Neurobiology of Disease (3)
- Neuron (6)
- Oncogene (1)
- Pharmaceutics (1)
- PLOS ONE (2)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA (1)
- Science (3)
- Science Translational Medicine (2)
- Scientific Reports (2)
- Stem Cell Reports (1)
- The EMBO Journal (1)
- The Journal of Neuroscience (1)