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Paul Matthews

Prof Paul Matthews

OBE, DPhil, MD, FRCP, FMedSci ((he/him))

Group Leader

Exploring neuronal vulnerability and genetic risk variants in Alzheimer’s progression

Techniques

Advanced spectroscopy, Bioinformatics, Biophysical techniques, Experimental medicine, Human brain imaging, Lipidomics, Single cell / nucleus transcriptomics, Statistical modelling, Stem cells / iPSCs

Biography

Paul is a neurologist with a research focus on neuroinflammatory mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and multiple sclerosis.

He read chemistry as an undergraduate in Oxford, completed his DPhil there in the biochemistry laboratory of Prof. Sir George Radda, then obtained an MD and was an intern in medicine at Stanford University with a part-time post-doctoral period in the Department of Pharmacology before moving to the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) for a Residency in Neurology. Following this, he spent a further three post-doctoral years in the Genetics Laboratory in Oxford before becoming an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Genetics at McGill University. He returned to Oxford in 1995 as an MRC Clinical Research Reader (later Professor) where he was the founding Director of Oxford’s Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB). From 2005, he became a Vice President in GlaxoSmithKline, holding a variety of senior portfolios, including those for the GSK Clinical Imaging Centre and, later, the Global Imaging Group. He was Chair of the UKRI MRC Neuroscience and Mental Health Board 2020-24.

Paul is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow by Special Election of St Edmund Hall, Oxford and a Fellow of the Academia Europea. He was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 for services to Neuroscience.  

News

Key publications

Nat Genet
Published
Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.
Authors
Evangelos Evangelou, Helen R Warren, David Mosen-Ansorena, Borbala Mifsud, Raha Pazoki, He Gao, Georgios Ntritsos, Niki Dimou, Claudia P Cabrera, Ibrahim Karaman, Fu Liang Ng, Marina Evangelou, Katarzyna Witkowska, Evan Tzanis, Jacklyn N Hellwege, Ayush Giri, Digna R Velez Edwards, Yan V Sun, Kelly Cho, J Michael Gaziano, Peter W F Wilson, Philip S Tsao, Csaba P Kovesdy, Tonu Esko, Reedik Mägi, Lili Milani, Peter Almgren, Thibaud Boutin, Stéphanie Debette, Jun Ding, Franco Giulianini, Elizabeth G Holliday, Anne U Jackson, Ruifang Li-Gao, Wei-Yu Lin, Jian'an Luan, Massimo Mangino, Christopher Oldmeadow, Bram Peter Prins, Yong Qian, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Nabi Shah, Praveen Surendran, Sébastien Thériault, Niek Verweij, Sara M Willems, Jing-Hua Zhao, Philippe Amouyel, John Connell, Renée de Mutsert, Alex S F Doney, Martin Farrall, Cristina Menni, Andrew D Morris, Raymond Noordam, Guillaume Paré, Neil R Poulter, Denis C Shields, Alice Stanton, Simon Thom, Gonçalo Abecasis, Najaf Amin, Dan E Arking, Kristin L Ayers, Caterina M Barbieri, Chiara Batini, Joshua C Bis, Tineka Blake, Murielle Bochud, Michael Boehnke, Eric Boerwinkle, Dorret I Boomsma, Erwin P Bottinger, Peter S Braund, Marco Brumat, Archie Campbell, Harry Campbell, Aravinda Chakravarti, John C Chambers, Ganesh Chauhan, Marina Ciullo, Massimiliano Cocca, Francis Collins, Heather J Cordell, Gail Davies, Martin H de Borst, Eco J de Geus, Ian J Deary, Joris Deelen, Fabiola Del Greco M, Cumhur Yusuf Demirkale, Marcus Dörr, Georg B Ehret, Roberto Elosua, Stefan Enroth, A Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Teresa Ferreira, Mattias Frånberg, Oscar H Franco, Ilaria Gandin, Paolo Gasparini, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Christian Gieger, Giorgia Girotto, Anuj Goel, Alan J Gow, Vilmundur Gudnason, Xiuqing Guo, Ulf Gyllensten, Anders Hamsten, Tamara B Harris, Sarah E Harris, Catharina A Hartman, Aki S Havulinna, Andrew A Hicks, Edith Hofer, Albert Hofman, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jennifer E Huffman, Shih-Jen Hwang, Erik Ingelsson, Alan James, Rick Jansen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Roby Joehanes, Åsa Johansson, Andrew D Johnson, Peter K Joshi, Pekka Jousilahti, J Wouter Jukema, Antti Jula, Mika Kähönen, Sekar Kathiresan, Bernard D Keavney, Kay-Tee Khaw, Paul Knekt, Joanne Knight, Ivana Kolcic, Jaspal S Kooner, Seppo Koskinen, Kati Kristiansson, Zoltan Kutalik, Maris Laan, Marty Larson, Lenore J Launer, Benjamin Lehne, Terho Lehtimäki, David C M Liewald, Li Lin, Lars Lind, Cecilia M Lindgren, YongMei Liu, Ruth J F Loos, Lorna M Lopez, Yingchang Lu, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Anubha Mahajan, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Jaume Marrugat, Jonathan Marten, Yuri Milaneschi, Anna Morgan, Andrew P Morris, Alanna C Morrison, Peter J Munson, Mike A Nalls, Priyanka Nandakumar, Christopher P Nelson, Teemu Niiranen, Ilja M Nolte, Teresa Nutile, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Ben A Oostra, Paul F O'Reilly, Elin Org, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Walter Palmas, Aarno Palotie, Alison Pattie, Brenda W J H Penninx, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Peter P Pramstaller, Quang Tri Nguyen, Olli T Raitakari, Meixia Ren, Rainer Rettig, Kenneth Rice, Paul M Ridker, Janina S Ried, Harriëtte Riese, Samuli Ripatti, Antonietta Robino, Lynda M Rose, Jerome I Rotter, Igor Rudan, Daniela Ruggiero, Yasaman Saba, Cinzia F Sala, Veikko Salomaa, Nilesh J Samani, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Reinhold Schmidt, Helena Schmidt, Nick Shrine, David Siscovick, Albert V Smith, Harold Snieder, Siim Sõber, Rossella Sorice, John M Starr, David J Stott, David P Strachan, Rona J Strawbridge, Johan Sundström, Morris A Swertz, Kent D Taylor, Alexander Teumer, Martin D Tobin, Maciej Tomaszewski, Daniela Toniolo, Michela Traglia, Stella Trompet, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Christophe Tzourio, André G Uitterlinden, Ahmad Vaez, Peter J van der Most, Cornelia M van Duijn, Anne-Claire Vergnaud, Germaine C Verwoert, Veronique Vitart, Uwe Völker, Peter Vollenweider, Dragana Vuckovic, Hugh Watkins, Sarah H Wild, Gonneke Willemsen, James F Wilson, Alan F Wright, Jie Yao, Tatijana Zemunik, Weihua Zhang, John R Attia, Adam S Butterworth, Daniel I Chasman, David Conen, Francesco Cucca, John Danesh, Caroline Hayward, Joanna M M Howson, Markku Laakso, Edward G Lakatta, Claudia Langenberg, Olle Melander, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Colin N A Palmer, Lorenz Risch, Robert A Scott, Rodney J Scott, Peter Sever, Tim D Spector, Pim van der Harst, Nicholas J Wareham, Eleftheria Zeggini, Daniel Levy, Patricia B Munroe, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Morris J Brown, Andres Metspalu, Adriana M Hung, Christopher J O'Donnell, Todd L Edwards, Bruce M Psaty, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Michael R Barnes, Louise V Wain, Paul Elliott, Mark J Caulfield,
Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.
Nat Genet
Published
Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia.
Authors
Nathan G Skene, Julien Bryois, Trygve E Bakken, Gerome Breen, James J Crowley, Héléna A Gaspar, Paola Giusti-Rodriguez, Rebecca D Hodge, Jeremy A Miller, Ana B Muñoz-Manchado, Michael C O'Donovan, Michael J Owen, Antonio F Pardiñas, Jesper Ryge, James T R Walters, Sten Linnarsson, Ed S Lein, , Patrick F Sullivan, Jens Hjerling-Leffler
Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia.
Nat Commun
Published
Targeting of NAT10 enhances healthspan in a mouse model of human accelerated aging syndrome.
Authors
Gabriel Balmus, Delphine Larrieu, Ana C Barros, Casey Collins, Monica Abrudan, Mukerrem Demir, Nicola J Geisler, Christopher J Lelliott, Jacqueline K White, Natasha A Karp, James Atkinson, Andrea Kirton, Matt Jacobsen, Dean Clift, Raphael Rodriguez, , David J Adams, Stephen P Jackson
Targeting of NAT10 enhances healthspan in a mouse model of human accelerated aging syndrome.

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