Martin Rossor
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Martin Neil Rossor, MA MB B.Chir, MD FRCP FMedSci, is a clinical neurologist with a specialty interest in degenerative dementias and familial disease.
Education
Jesus College, Cambridge 1968-1971 King's College, Hospital Medical School 1971-1974
Professional Qualifications
MB, B.Chir, Cambridge: 1974
MD Cambridge: 1986
FRCP (MRCP 1976): 1990
Career
He is Professor Emeritus and Principal Research Associate at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and was the National Director for Dementia Research for the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) in the UK.
He was the editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, President of the Association of British Neurologists, Director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network for Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Director of the NIHR Queen Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit.
Research
His collaborative work in identifying and characterising a large collection of familial cases of Alzheimer’s disease contributed to the discovery of mutations in the amyloid precursor protein gene[1],[2].
His recent research focuses on general cognitive impairment in systemic disease and multimorbidity including development of the Cognitive Footprint concept, which he co-authored in 2015[3].
Awards
- Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s disease Research of the Alzheimer Association (2009)
- British Neuropsychiatry Association Medallist (2017)
- Association of British Neurology Medallist (2017)
Plenary and Named Lectures
- 1995 FE Williams Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians
- 1999 First McDonald Critchley Lecturer, World Federation of Neurology, London
- 2003 Science Today, Health tomorrow – Royal Institution of Great Britain, London
- 2008 Croonian Lecturer – Royal College of Physicians
- 2010 Plenary Lecture American Neurological Association
- 2012 Royal Society of Medicine Stevens Lecture for the Laity
- 2017 Kings College London Institute of Gerontology David Hobman Lecture
Publications
Rossor has authored nearly 900 publications. He has been on the Highly Cited Researcher list from Clarivate since 2018.
References
- ↑ Goate, Alison; Chartier-Harlin, Marie-Christine; Mullan, Mike; Brown, Jeremy; Crawford, Fiona; Fidani, Liana; Giuffra, Luis; Haynes, Andrew; Irving, Nick; James, Louise; Mant, Rebecca (1991-02-05). "Segregation of a missense mutation in the amyloid precursor protein gene with familial Alzheimer's disease". Nature. 349 (6311): 704–706. doi:10.1038/349704a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
- ↑ Chartier-Harlin, Marie-Christine; Crawford, Fiona; Houlden, Henry; Warren, Andrew; Hughes, David; Fidani, Liana; Goate, Alison; Rossor, Martin; Roques, Penelope; Hardy, John; Mullan, Mike (1991-10-06). "Early-onset Alzheimer's disease caused by mutations at codon 717 of the β-amyloid precursor protein gene". Nature. 353 (6347): 844–846. doi:10.1038/353844a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
- ↑ Rossor, Martin; Knapp, Martin (2015-09-05). "Can we model a cognitive footprint of interventions and policies to help to meet the global challenge of dementia?". The Lancet. 386 (9997): 1008–1010. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60248-3. ISSN 0140-6736.
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