Expert referee panel
Our Expert Referee Panel consists of world-class dementia research professionals. Members volunteer their time to conduct detailed reviews of grant applications in their area of expertise. Our Scientific Advisory Board then considers the reviews in full.
Current Members:
Dr Vishwas Agashe, University of Oxford
Prof Paul Aisen, University of California, San Diego
Dr Katerina Akassoglou, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease University of California, San Francisco
Prof Daniel L Alkon, Johns Hopkins University
Dr Stuart Allan, University of Manchester
Dr Shelley J Allen, University of Bristol
Prof David Allsop, Lancaster University
Prof Osvaldo Almeida, University of Western Australia
Dr Safa Al-Sarraj, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Prof Brian Anderton, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Prof Gary Arendash, University of South Florida
Dr Johannes Attems, Newcastle University
Prof Brian Austen, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London
Prof Alan Baddeley, University of York
Prof Veerle Baekelandt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Dr Robert Balazs, British Neuropathological Society
Prof Clive Ballard, King’s College London
Prof Sube Banerjee, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Dr Mark Baxter, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Prof Andrew Blamire, Newcastle University
Dr Juan Bolanos, University of Salamanca, Spain
Prof Marina Botto, Imperial College London
Dr Kieran Breen, Parkinson’s Disease Society
Prof John Breitner, McGill University, Canada
Prof David Brooks, Imperial College London
Prof Ed Bullmore, University of Cambridge
Prof Ashley Bush, Harvard University
Dr E Jane Byrne, University of Manchester
Prof Janet Carter, University College London
Dr Ke Chen, University of Manchester
Dr Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge
Dr Richard Cowburn, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Prof Suzanne Craft, University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr Matt Crump, University of Bristol
Prof Trevor Dale, Cardiff University
Prof Janet Darbyshire, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London
Prof Kay Davies, University of Oxford
Prof Tony Day, University of Manchester
Dr Maria de Ceballos, Cajal Institute, Spain
Dr Giancarlo de Ferrari, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Prof Marian DiFiglia, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr Andrew Dillin, Salk Institute, California
Prof Colin Dingwall, King’s College London
Dr Curtis Dobson, University of Manchester
Prof Michael Duchen, University College London
Prof Karen Duff, Columbia University
Prof Klaus Ebmeier, University of Oxford
Dr Omar El-Agnaf, United Arab Emirates University
Prof Sebastiaan Engelborghs, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Prof Dr Henry Engler, University of the Republic, Uruguay, and Uppsala University, Sweden
Prof Margaret Esiri, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Dr Genevieve Evin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Tom Farrow, University of Sheffield
Dr Paul Fletcher, University of Cambridge
Prof Leon Flicker, University of Western Australia
Dr Mark Forman, Merck Research Laboratories
Prof Nick Fox, Institute of Neurology, University College London
Dr Paul Francis, King’s College London
Prof John Gallacher, Cardiff University
Prof Paul Gard, University of Brighton
Prof Giovanni Frisoni, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
Dr Steve Gentleman, Imperial College London
Dr Tom Gillingwater, University of Edinburgh
Dr Michel Goedert, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Prof Gabriel Gold, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
Dr Cheng-Xin Gong, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities
Prof Mark Good, Cardiff University
Dr Rebecca Gould, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Prof Manuel Graeber, Imperial College London
Prof Seth Grant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Prof Stephen Greenberg, Harvard Medical School
Prof Paul Griffiths, Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Dr Timo Grimmer, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Dr Matthias Groszer, Institut du Fer a Moulin
Dr Suzanne Guénette, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
Dr Jennifer Gurd, University of Oxford
Dr Diane Hanger, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Dr Charles Harrington, University of Aberdeen
Dr Tobias Hartmann, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Prof John Harwood, Cardiff University
Prof Jean-Jacques Hauw, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris
Prof Simon Heales, Institute of Child Health, University College London
Prof Karl Herholz, University of Manchester
Dr Caroline Herron, University College Dublin
Prof Herbert Herzog, Garvan Institute, Australia
Dr Hyang-Sook Hoe, Georgetown University
Dr Andrew Holmes, National Institutes of Health
Dr Clive Holmes, University of Southampton
Erika Holzbaur, University of Pennsylvania
Prof Rob Howard, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Prof Veijo Hukkanen, University of Oulu, Finland
Prof A Huttenhofer, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Prof Michael Hutton, Merck Research Laboratories
Prof Nibaldo Inestrosa, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Prof Kerstin Iverfeldt, Stockholm University, Sweden
Prof Leslie Iversen, University of Oxford
Prof William Jagust, University of California, Berkeley
Prof Kurt Jellinger, Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, Vienna
Dr Lesley Jones, University of Wales College of Medicine
Prof Roy Jones, University of Bath
Prof Jean-Pierre Julien, Laval University, Quebec
Prof Hannu Kalimo, University Hospital of Helsinki, Finland
Dr Patrick Kehoe, University of Bristol
Dr Andis Klegeris, University of British Columbia
Prof Peter Klein, University of Pennsylvania
Dr Mary Konsolaki, Rutgers University
Dr Kim Krishnan, Newcastle University
Prof Peter Lachmann, University of Cambridge
Dr Daniel Lambert, University of Sheffield
Prof Matt Lambon-Ralph, University of Manchester
Dr Nicola Lautenschlager, University of Western Australia
Dr Jia-Yi Li, Lund University, Sweden
Prof James Lindesay, University of Leicester
Prof Gill Livingston, University College London
Prof David Lomas, University of Cambridge
Prof Seth Love, University of Bristol
Federica Lucchelli, Rovereto, Italy
Prof Beat Lutz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Dr Marina Lynch, University of Dublin, Trinity College
Prof Nicole Mahy, Universitat de Barcelona
Prof Kenneth Maiese, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Prof Alistair Mathie, Imperial College London
Prof Alberto Martínez-Serrano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Dr Fiona Matthews, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
Dr Andrew McCaddon, University of Wales College of Medicine
Prof Declan McLoughlin, University of Dublin, Trinity College
Dr Raul Mena, CINVESTAV-IPN, México
Prof Jose Luis Millan, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, California
Prof María A Moro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Dr Huw Morris, University of Cardiff
Prof Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh
Prof Robin Morris, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Dr Amrit Mudher, University of Southampton
Prof Virgil Muresan, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Dr Peter Nestor, University of Cambridge
Prof Ted Nettelbeck, University of Adelaide
Dr Manuela Neumann, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany
Prof James Nicoll, University of Southampton
Prof Lars Nilsson, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Prof Agneta Nordberg, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Dr M Kerry O’Banion, University of Rochester Medical School, New York
Prof J T O’Brien, Wolfson Research Centre
Dr Cora O'Neill, University College Cork
Prof Carmine Pariante, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Prof Linda Partridge, University College London
Prof Giulio Pasinetti, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Prof Florence Pasquier, University Hospital, Lille
Prof Hemant Paudel, McGill University, Canada
Prof Henry Paulson, University of Iowa
Prof Chris Peers, University of Leeds
Dr Giusy Pennetta, University of Edinburgh
Prof Hugh Perry, University of Southampton
Prof Ole Petersen, University of Cardiff
Dr Stuart Pickering-Brown, University of Manchester
Dr Bettina Platt, University of Aberdeen
Dr Florian Plattner, Institute of Neurology, University College London
Dr Jennifer Pocock, Institute of Neurology, University College London
Dr Tuomo Polvikoski, Newcastle University
Dr John Powell, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Prof Luigi Puglielli, Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute
Prof Timothy Ravasi, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr Rivka Ravid, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, The Netherlands
Prof Nick Rawlins, University of Oxford
Dr William Rebeck, Georgetown University
Dr Eric Richfield, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, New York
Prof Olaf Riess, University of Tübingen, Germany
Dr Craig Ritchie, Imperial College London
Dr Phillip Robinson, University of Leeds
Prof Irwin Rosenberg, Tufts University, Boston
Prof Christopher Rowe, Austin Health, Australia
Prof David Sattelle, University of Oxford
Prof Phillip Scheltens, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam
Dr Ralf Schoepfer, University College London
Prof Sudha Seshadri, Boston University
Dr Chris Shaw, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Prof Tom Shea, University of Massachusetts
Dr Andrew Singleton, National Institutes of Health
Prof David Smith, University of Oxford
Dr Julie Snowden, University of Manchester
Prof Michael Sofroniew, UCLA School of Medicine
Dr Estelle Sontag, University of Newcastle, Australia
Prof Grace Stutzmann, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago
Dr Callum Sutherland, University of Dundee
Dr Andrea Tales, University of Bristol
Dr Deanna Taylor, Imperial College London
Prof Piero Temussi, University of Naples, Italy
Dr Mary C Tierney, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada
Prof Antonia Trichopoulou, University of Athens, Greece
Prof Tom Troscianko, University of Bristol
Prof Anthony Turner, University of Leeds
Dr R Scott Turner, University of Michigan
Prof Vladimir Uversky, Indiana University
Prof W A van Gool, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
Dr Martin Villalba, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier
Prof Pieter Jelle Visser, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
Prof Gunhild Waldemar, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Dr James Warner, Imperial College London
Prof Martin Watterson, Northwestern University, Chicago
Prof Sascha Weggen, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Prof Roy Weller, University of Southampton
Prof Gary Wenk, Ohio State University
Prof Steve Williams, University of Manchester
Prof Bengt Winblad, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden
Prof William Wisden, Imperial College London
Prof Dominic Withers, University College London
Prof Nicholas Wood, Institute of Neurology, University College London
Prof Jim Woodgett, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
Prof David Wyper, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
Prof Mike Wyss, University of Alabama
Prof Adam Zeman, University of Exeter
Prof Henrik Zetterberg, Göteborg University