Professor Tara Spires-Jones receives recognition award from the Alzheimer's Association

Wednesday, 31 July, 2024

Congratulations to Professor Tara Spires-Jones who has received the Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award for Alzheimer’s Research by the Alzheimer’s Association.

The prize recognizes the senior author of the most impactful study on the biology of Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions published during the past two years, you can read the article here:

Synaptic oligomeric tau in Alzheimer's disease - A potential culprit in the spread of tau pathology through the brain

Prof Spires-Jones is the personal chair of neurodegeneration and director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the mechanisms and reversibility of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, other degenerative brain diseases and aging. Her work has shown that soluble forms of the pathological proteins amyloid beta and tau contribute to synapse and neurodegeneration. Spires-Jones is the current president of the British Neuroscience Association, and is founding editor of the translational neuroscience journal Brain Communications.

Further links

Professor Tara Spires-Jones research profile

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference Awards