New AMS Fellows at UCL
New AMS Fellows at UCL - Eight UCL academics have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognition of their exceptional contributions to biomedical and health science and their ability to generate new knowledge and improve the health of people everywhere. Professors Sebastian Brandner and Karen Duff (both UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology), Professor Robert Heyderman (UCL Infection & Immunity), Professors Sam Janes and Hugh Montgomery (both UCL Medicine), Professor Caroline Sabin (UCL Institute for Global Health), and Professor Russell Viner (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health), as well as Honorary Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences), are among the 60 outstanding scientists elected to the Fellowship this year. The academics from UCL are: Professor Sebastian Brandner (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) Professor Brandner, Professor of Neurodegenerative Diseases, studies the cellular origins of brain tumours, including research that could feed into potential new treatments such as discovering biomarkers that correlate with survival of gliomas. He introduced a novel technology to diagnose brain tumours into clinical practice in the UK, which is now an essential part of molecular diagnostics in the NHS. He also researches neurodegeneration, having led two national surveillance studies of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and he led a team that discovered that amyloid beta can in rare cases be transmitted through medical procedures.
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