Prof Sir John Hardy

Group Leader

Harnessing genetics to build a better understanding of dementia

Condition

Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease

Topics

Genetics

Biography

Prof Sir John Hardy is a world-leading neurogeneticist in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, receiving numerous accolades that include the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Brain Prize, election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and, in 2022, a knighthood for his contributions to science and health. In 1991, Hardy's team uncovered the first mutation directly implicated in Alzheimer's disease leading to the formulation of the highly influential 'amyloid-cascade' hypothesis. His extensive body of work in genetics will be built upon in this UK DRI programme, where the team will unravel pathogenic networks in neurodegenerative disease.

News

Key publications

Nature medicine
Published
Increased frequency of repeat expansion mutations across different populations
Authors
Kristina Ibañez, Bharati Jadhav, Matteo Zanovello, Delia Gagliardi, Christopher Clarkson, Stefano Facchini, Paras Garg, Alejandro Martin-Trujillo, Scott J Gies, Valentina Galassi Deforie, Anupriya Dalmia, Davina J Hensman Moss, Jana Vandrovcova, Clarissa Rocca, Loukas Moutsianas, Chiara Marini-Bettolo, Helen Walker, Chris Turner, Maryam Shoai, Jeffrey D Long, Pietro Fratta, Douglas R Langbehn, Sarah J Tabrizi, Mark J Caulfield, Andrea Cortese, Valentina Escott-Price, John Hardy, Henry Houlden, Andrew J Sharp, Arianna Tucci
Increased frequency of repeat expansion mutations across different populations
Nat Med
Published
Increased frequency of repeat expansion mutations across different populations.
Authors
Kristina Ibañez, Bharati Jadhav, Matteo Zanovello, Delia Gagliardi, Christopher Clarkson, Stefano Facchini, Paras Garg, Alejandro Martin-Trujillo, Scott J Gies, Valentina Galassi Deforie, Anupriya Dalmia, Davina J Hensman Moss, Jana Vandrovcova, Clarissa Rocca, Loukas Moutsianas, Chiara Marini-Bettolo, Helen Walker, Chris Turner, Maryam Shoai, Jeffrey D Long, Pietro Fratta, Douglas R Langbehn, Sarah J Tabrizi, Mark J Caulfield, Andrea Cortese, Valentina Escott-Price, John Hardy, Henry Houlden, Andrew J Sharp, Arianna Tucci
Increased frequency of repeat expansion mutations across different populations.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Published
Increased burden of rare risk variants across gene expression networks predisposes to sporadic Parkinson's disease
Authors
Elena Eubanks, Katelyn VanderSleen, Jiya Mody, Neha Patel, Benjamin Sacks, Mahsa Darestani Farahani, Jinying Wang, Jordan Elliott, Nora Jaber, Fulya Akçimen, Sara Bandres-Ciga, Fadel Helweh, Jun Liu, Sanjana Archakam, Robert Kimelman, Bineet Sharma, Philip Socha, Ananya Guntur, Tim Bartels, Ulf Dettmer, M Maral Mouradian, Amir Houshang Bahrami, Wei Dai, Jean Baum, Zheng Shi, John Hardy, Eleanna Kara
Increased burden of rare risk variants across gene expression networks predisposes to sporadic Parkinson's disease
The EMBO journal
Published
Author Correction: Microglia-synapse engulfment via PtdSer-TREM2 ameliorates neuronal hyperactivity in Alzheimer's disease models
Authors
Javier Rueda-Carrasco, Dimitra Sokolova, Sang-Eun Lee, Thomas Childs, Natália Jurčáková, Gerard Crowley, Sebastiaan De Schepper, Judy Z Ge, Joanne I Lachica, Christina E Toomey, Oliver J Freeman, John Hardy, Samuel J Barnes, Tammaryn Lashley, Beth Stevens, Sunghoe Chang, Soyon Hong
Author Correction: Microglia-synapse engulfment via PtdSer-TREM2 ameliorates neuronal hyperactivity in Alzheimer's disease models

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