Giovanna Mallucci

van Geest Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Associate Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute

University of Cambridge

Professor Giovanna Mallucci gained undergraduate degrees in Physiological Sciences and Medicine from the University of Oxford, with clinical training at UCL. She obtained her PhD from London University. Her lab is pioneering interventions targeting common pathways for treatment of dementia. Her work on the role of the UPR in neurodegenerative disease and its pharmacological manipulation has been hailed as “turning point in search for medicines to control and prevent Alzheimer’s”. She has received numerous national and international awards for her work, including a SciAm50 award and has given many plenary and keynote talks at international conferences. She is an ERC Consolidator Fellow and in 2017 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital specialising in dementia.