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Ketevan Alania

Project Title: Non-invasive Deep Brain Stimulation to Modulate Brain Activity and Related Function

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Bshaier Allehyany

Project Title: Age, Sex, and Synaptic Proteomic Signatures in Super-Agers

Supervisors: Dr Johanna Jackson, Dr Yu Ye

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Aydan Askarova

Project Title: Discovering Risk Genes and Pathways in Alzheimer’s Disease: Integrative Enhancer-to-Gene Interactome Mapping of the Cerebral Vasculature

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott

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Marirena Bafaloukou

Supervisor: Dr Cynthia Sandor

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Ida Bomann

Project Title: Investigation of Stress-Induced Senescence Associated with Ageing and Neurodegeneration

Supervisors: Dr Raffaella Nativio, Professor Jesus Gil

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Sam Boulger

Project Title: What Makes a Neuron Vulnerable to Early Alzheimer’s Disease?

Supervisors: Professor Paul Matthews, Dr Eugene Duff, Dr Javier Alegre Abarrategui

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Matilda Burridge

Matilda Burridge

Project Title: Investigating the Role of Inducible Proteasome Subunits in Neuronal Models of Tauopathies

Supervisors: Dr Yu Ye, Dr Johanna Jackson, Professor Amin Hajitou

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Vicky Chau

Project title: The Pathological Glial-Neuron Interactions and Tau Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Professor Paul Matthews, Dr Javier Alegre Abarrategui

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Jia Qi Chong

Project Title: Deciphering Epigenetic Regulation of Astrocyte Functional States in Healthy Ageing and in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Raffaella Nativio, Professor Simone Di Giovanni

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Thomas Deegan

Project Title: Closed-Loop EEG with Temporal Interference Stimulation

Supervisors: Dr Nir Grossman

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Vanessa Drevenakova

Supervisor: Dr Sophie Morse

Marco Ferrari

Project Title: Investigating the Interplay between Circadian Clocks and mTOR Signalling in Microglia and its Disruption in Neurodegeneration

Supervisor: Dr Marco Brancaccio

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Tatiana Georgiades

Project Title: Multi-‘omic Characterisation of Vulnerable Synaptic Components in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Johanna Jackson, Dr Samuel Barnes

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Isidora Gocmanac

Project Title: Epigenomic Profiling in Disease Relevant Cell Types

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

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Anjali Golding

Project Title: Elucidating Genetic Regulatory Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease and Drug Repurposing

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews, Dr Eugene Duff

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Katarina Gregorovicsova

Supervisor: Dr Yu Ye

Sarina Grewal

Supervisors: Dr Sophie Morse, Professor Paul Matthews

Anastasia Ilina

Project Title: Towards the Early Diagnostic and Identification of New Drug Targets for Parkinson’s Disease by Digital Tracking of Early Non-Motor Symptoms
Supervisor: Dr Cynthia Sandor

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Martin Lombard

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Jamie Malcolm

Supervisor: Dr Marco Brancaccio

Dr Charlie McKechnie

Project Title: Translational Medicine in Alzheimer’s Disease: TSPO Modulation in AD; MINDMAPS 2.0; Computational Drug Discovery in AD
Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews

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Sabino Mendez Pastor

Project title: How Do TREM2 Gene Variants Enhance Susceptibility to Alzheimer’s Disease?

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews

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Marianna Papageorgopoulou

Project Title: Multi-omic Characterisation of the Molecular Neuropathology of ABCA7 Variants in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Professor Paul Matthews, Dr Johanna Jackson, Dr David Owen

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Caroline Rew

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Manaal Shah

Supervisor: Dr Sophie Morse

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Lucas Siu

Supervisor: Dr Nathan Skene

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Craig Terris

Supervisor: Dr Anna Mallach

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Assaf Touboul

Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

Janis Transfeld

Project Title: The Role of Genetic Risk Variants in Regulatory Elements in Parkinson’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott, Professor Steve Gentleman, Dr Sarah Marzi

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Janna van Dalen

Project Title: Investigating the Epigenomic Changes in Vascular and Immune Cells of the Ageing Human Brain

Supervisors: Dr Alexi Nott, Dr David Owen

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Xingjian Wang

Project Title: Proteomic Signatures of Synaptic Vulnerability and Resilience in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisor: Dr Samuel Barnes

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Dr Simon Williamson

Project Title: Developing closed-loop control brain stimulation to treat Alzheimer’s disease
Supervisor: Dr Nir Grossman

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Kevin Ziegler

Project Title: Exploration of Enhancer Landscapes in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Patients with the Aim to Reveal Signalling Pathways Associated with the Disease Pathogenesis

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott

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Medical Research Council