Spotlight on... Professor Selina Wray

This week we meet Selina Wray, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Here, she chats to us about co-leading a takeover of the Science Museum Lates with Alzheimer's Research UK to showcase UCL Dementia Research. What is your role and what does it involve?. I am a Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. I lead a group of super talented researchers who are interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). To do this, we generate stem cells from people with genetic causes of dementia and use these to generate neurons (the cell type that is affected in different forms of dementia) - allowing us to have personalised 'dementia in a dish' models which we can study in the lab. By using cells directly from patients, we can investigate the very earliest signs of cellular dysfunction and develop strategies to prevent this, which could ultimately become new therapies.
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