Member Directory

Prof Phil Taylor

Group Leader

UK DRI at Cardiff

Working to understand how rare coding variants that alter disease risk impact the behaviour of microglia for targeting in Alzheimer's disease

Prof Sandrine Thuret

UK DRI Associate Member

King's College London

Professor of Neuroscience and Co-Head of Department, Basic & Clinical Neuroscience at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience - King's College London

Prof Jernej Ule

Centre Director

UK DRI at King's

Deciphering the role of RNA in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

Prof Ravi Vaidyanathan

Group Leader

UK DRI Care Research & Technology at Imperial

Developing a family of robotic devices that can engage people living with dementia, helping improve safety in the home and enhancing quality of life

Elena Veleva

UK DRI Facility Co-ordinator

Facility Co-ordinator, UK DRI Biomarker Factory

Dr Ruby Wallis

Research Themes Project Manager

Prof Joanna Wardlaw

Group Leader and Clinical Director of the CVDR

UK DRI at Edinburgh

Discovering how small vessel disease damages the brain and what we can do to prevent or treat it

Prof Caleb Webber

Director of Data Science & Group Leader

UK DRI at Cardiff

Combining state-of-the-art stem cell models with bioinformatics techniques to boost our understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease

Dr Philip Weston

Emerging Leader

UK DRI at UCL

Using advanced forms of MRI and PET brain scanning to identify and track the earliest signs of brain cell loss

Prof Anna Williams

UK DRI Co-investigator

University of Edinburgh

Professor of Regenerative Neurology, University of Edinburgh

Prof Julie Williams

Group Leader

UK DRI at Cardiff

Understanding the genetics of Alzheimer's disease

Danielle Wilson

Centre and Research Commercialisation Manager, UK DRI Care Research & Technology