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Prof Joanna Wardlaw

(She/Her)

Group Leader and Clinical Director of the CVDR

Causes, mechanisms, clinical features, diagnosis, consequences, outcomes and treatment of cerebral small vessel disease focusing on clinical studies.

Techniques

Advanced microscopy & imaging, Lipidomics, Mass spec-based proteomics, Mouse in vivo imaging, Drug screening, Experimental medicine, Fluid biomarkers, Human brain imaging, Metabolomics, Mouse behaviour, Single cell / nucleus transcriptomics, Software development, Statistical modelling, Viral-mediated expression

Biography

Medicine (Hons) Edinburgh; clinical academic; foundation chair UK DRI 2017.

Large research medical imaging facilities; training programmes; research into cerebrovascular disease and vascular causes of cognitive decline including small vessel disease.

Honours & awards

2016  Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

1998 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh       (FRCP)

2005 Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences                     (FMedSci)

2008 Fellow of the European Society of Neuroradiology            (FESN)

2009 Fellow of the European Stroke Organisation                     (FESO)

2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh                         (FRSE)

2015 Fellow of the American Heart Association                        (FAHA)

2019 Fellow of the World Stroke Organisation                           (FWSO)

2025 Member of the Academia Europaea                                  (MAE)

2008  British Society of Neuroradiologists President’s Medal for Lifetime Achievement

2017   President’s Award, European Stroke Organisation, for lifetime contribution to stroke

2018   AHA/American Stroke Association Feinberg Award, for clinical advances in stroke,

2018   Karolinska Stroke Award for Lifetime Contribution to Stroke

2021   British Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience

2023   Biochemical Society - Sustained Excellence Award, 2024

2023   Association of British Neurologists Lord John Walton Memorial Lecture

2023   UK Stroke Forum Outstanding Achievement Award

2025   C Miller Fisher visiting Professorship, Massachussetts General Hospital/Harvard Med School

2025  Georges Marinescu Distinguished Lectureship, Romanian Neurological Society

News

Research interest

Small vessel disease; brain and vascular advanced MRI methods; vascular causes of dementia; cerebrovascular disease; clinical trials, reverse and forward translation.

Key publications

Alzheimer's research & therapy
Published

Perivascular space enlargement accelerates in ageing and Alzheimer's disease pathology: evidence from a three-year longitudinal multicentre study

Authors
Inga Menze, Jose Bernal, Pinar Kaya, Çağla Aki, Malte Pfister, Jonas Geisendörfer, Renat Yakupov, Roberto Duarte Coello, Maria D C Valdés-Hernández, Michael T Heneka, Frederic Brosseron, Matthias C Schmid, Wenzel Glanz, Enise I Incesoy, Michaela Butryn, Ayda Rostamzadeh, Dix Meiberth, Oliver Peters, Lukas Preis, Dominik Lammerding, Daria Gref, Josef Priller, Eike J Spruth, Slawek Altenstein, Andrea Lohse, Stefan Hetzer, Anja Schneider, Klaus Fliessbach, Okka Kimmich, Ina R Vogt, Jens Wiltfang, Claudia Bartels, Björn H Schott, Niels Hansen, Peter Dechent, Katharina Buerger, Daniel Janowitz, Robert Perneczky, Boris-Stephan Rauchmann, Stefan Teipel, Ingo Kilimann, Doreen Goerss, Christoph Laske, Matthias H Munk, Carolin Sanzenbacher, Petra Hinderer, Klaus Scheffler, Annika Spottke, Nina Roy-Kluth, Falk Lüsebrink, Katja Neumann, Joanna Wardlaw, Frank Jessen, Stefanie Schreiber, Emrah Düzel, Gabriel Ziegler
Perivascular space enlargement accelerates in ageing and Alzheimer's disease pathology: evidence from a three-year longitudinal multicentre study
Journal of the American Heart Association
Published

Choroid Plexus Volume in Rural Chinese Older Adults: Distribution and Association With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

Authors
Chunyan Li, Huisi Zhang, Jiafeng Wang, Xiaodong Han, Cuicui Liu, Yuanjing Li, Tao Gong, Tingting Hou, Yongxiang Wang, Lin Cong, Grégoria Kalpouzos, Joanna Wardlaw, Lin Song, Yifeng Du, Chengxuan Qiu
Choroid Plexus Volume in Rural Chinese Older Adults: Distribution and Association With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
JAMA network open
Published

Sex Differences in Frequency, Severity, and Distribution of Cerebral Microbleeds

Authors
Simon Fandler-Höfler, Sebastian Eppinger, Gareth Ambler, Philip Nash, Markus Kneihsl, Keon-Joo Lee, Jae-Sung Lim, Masayuki Shiozawa, Masatoshi Koga, Linxin Li, Caroline Lovelock, Hugues Chabriat, Michael Hennerici, Yuen Kwun Wong, Henry Ka Fung Mak, Luis Prats-Sanchez, Alejandro Martínez-Domeño, Shigeru Inamura, Kazuhisa Yoshifuji, Ethem Murat Arsava, Solveig Horstmann, Jan Purrucker, Bonnie Yin Ka Lam, Adrian Wong, Young Dae Kim, Tae-Jin Song, Robin Lemmens, Ender Uysal, Zeynep Tanriverdi, Natan M Bornstein, Einor Ben Assayag, Hen Hallevi, Jeremy Molad, Masashi Nishihara, Jun Tanaka, Shelagh B Coutts, Alexandros Polymeris, Benjamin Wagner, David J Seiffge, Philippe Lyrer, L Jaap Kappelle, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Maria Valdes Hernandez, Hans R Jäger, Gregory Y H Lip, Urs Fischer, Marwan El-Koussy, Jean-Louis Mas, Laurence Legrand, Christopher Karayiannis, Thanh Phan, Sarah Gunkel, Nicolas Christ, Jill Abrigo, Winnie Chu, Thomas Leung, Francesca Chappell, Stephen Makin, Derek Hayden, David J Williams, Werner H Mess, M Eline Kooi, Carmen Barbato, Simone Browning, Anil M Tuladhar, Noortje Maaijwee, Anne Cristine Guevarra, Anne-Marie Mendyk, Christine Delmaire, Sebastian Köhler, Robert van Oostenbrugge, Ying Zhou, Chao Xu, Saima Hilal, Caroline Robert, Christopher Chen, Min Lou, Julie Staals, Régis Bordet, Nagaendran Kandiah, Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Robert Simister, Daniel Bos, Peter J Kelly, Joanna Wardlaw, Yannie Soo, Felix Fluri, Velandai Srikanth, David Calvet, Simon Jung, Vincent I H Kwa, Stefan T Engelter, Nils Peters, Eric E Smith, Hideo Hara, Yusuke Yakushiji, Dilek Necioglu Orken, Vincent Thijs, Ji Hoe Heo, Vincent Mok, Roland Veltkamp, Hakan Ay, Toshio Imaizumi, Kui Kai Lau, Eric Jouvent, Peter M Rothwell, Kazunori Toyoda, Hee-Joon Bae, Joan Marti-Fabregas, Duncan Wilson, Jonathan Best, Franz Fazekas, Christian Enzinger, David J Werring, Thomas Gattringer, Microbleeds International Collaborative Network
Sex Differences in Frequency, Severity, and Distribution of Cerebral Microbleeds
Research square
Published

Proteogenomics in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma reveals new biological fingerprint of cerebral small vessel disease

Authors
Stephanie Debette, Ilana Caro, Daniel Western, Shinichi Namba, Na Sun, Shuji Kawaguchi, Yunye He, Masashi Fujita, Gennady Roshchupkin, Tim D'Aoust, Marie-Gabrielle Duperron, Murali Sargurupremraj, Ami Tsuchida, Masaru Koido, Marziehsadat Ahmadi, Chengran Yang, Jigyasha Timsina, Laura Ibanez, Koichi Matsuda, Yutaka Suzuki, Yoshiya Oda, Akinori Kanai, Pouria Jandaghi, Hans Markus Munter, Dan Auld, Iana Astafeva, Raquel Puerta, Jerome Rotter, Bruce Psaty, Joshua Bis, Will Longstreth, Thierry Couffinhal, Pablo Garcia-Gonzalez, Vanesa Pytel, Marta Marquié, Amanda Cano, Mercè Boada, Marc Joliot, Mark Lathrop, Quentin Le Grand, Lenore Launer, Joanna Wardlaw, Myriam Heiman, Agustin Ruiz, Paul Matthews, Sudha Seshadri, Myriam Fornage, Hieab Adams, Aniket Mishra, David-Alexandre Trégouët, Yukinori Okada, Manolis Kellis, Philip De Jager, Christophe Tzourio, Yoichiro Kamatani, Fumihiko Matsuda, Carlos Cruchaga
Proteogenomics in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma reveals new biological fingerprint of cerebral small vessel disease

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