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Genomic Analysis of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Prof John Hardy, Professor of Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London; HKUST IAS Senior Visiting Fellow
日期 : 2018年 9月 4日 (星期二)
時間 : 上午11時至下午12時30分
地點 : 香港科技大學 李兆基校園 盧家驄薈萃樓 高研院演講廳
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About the speaker

Prof John Hardy received his BS in Biochemistry from the University of Leeds in 1976 and his PhD in Neurochemistry from the Imperial College London in 1981. He spent his early career in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, the University of Umea and St Mary's Hospital (which later merged with the Imperial College London). In 1992, he moved to the US to take up the position of Eric Pfeiffer Endowed Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research at the University of South Florida. He then joined the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville in 1996 as a Consultant and Professor of Pharmacology and chaired the Department of Neuroscience during 1999-2001. In 2001, he moved to the National Institute on Aging of the US National Institutes of Health as the Chief of Laboratory of Neurogenetics. He returned to the UK in 2007 as a Professor of Neuroscience at the University College London (UCL). He is currently the Head of the Department of Molecular Neuroscience at UCL and the Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease at the UCL Institute of Neurology.

Prof Hardy’s research interests are in the genetic analysis of neurodegenerative disease. He contributed to a critical breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. He has since led a broader effort to understand the genetic factors underlying several forms of degenerative brain disease, including Parkinson’s disease and motor neuron disease. He discovered that a mutation in the gene for amyloid precursor protein (APP) caused deposits of a substance called amyloid to form in brain tissue, associated with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Deposits of amyloid, which kills brain cells, later proved to be a primary cause of the disease.

Prof Hardy was elected a Member of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2008, a Fellow of the UK Royal Society in 2009, of the Institute of Biology (now known as the UK Royal Society of Biology) in 2011 and of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2015. He has received numerous awards including the Dan David Prize (2014), the Thuduchum Medal (2014), the Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize (2015) and the Helis Prize (2016). In recognition of his pioneering research in neurodegeneration, he was awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2016 and the Brain Prize in 2018.

 

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  The lecture is free and open to all. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
     
  Light refreshments will be served from 10:30 to 11:00 am.

 

 

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