Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini has been awarded the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognises individuals with outstanding career achievements who have also supported the professional advancement of women in neuroscience. For more information on all of this year’s award winners at SfN, please read more here.
Maria is a member of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, where she is a Professor of Molecular Neurology. Her group works on the molecular neuropathology of diseases characterised by tau and alpha-synuclein aggregates. With her collaborators, she identified alpha-synuclein as the main component of the filaments that form the Lewy bodies in Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, and described one of the first mutations in the MAPT gene leading to frontotemporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17.
Maria will receive her award during the 2024 SfN meeting in Chicago. Congratulations from us all!
Posted on 23/09/2024
