John Hardy - Curriculum Vitae#

Professor John Anthony Hardy PhD MD Hon) DSc FMedSci FIBiol FRS
Head of Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology
& Professor of Neuroscience, Reta Lila Institute

Education/Training

• 2010 DSc University of Newcastle
  
• 2009 FRS Royal Society
  
• 2008 MD (Hon) University of Umea, Sweden
  
• 2008 FMedSci Academy of Medical Science
  
• 1979 PhD Pharmacology Imperial College London
  
• 1976 BSc Biochemistry University of Leeds
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interest is in the application of genetic analysis to the problem of neurodegenerative disease. I was in charge of the group which found the first APP mutation in Alzheimer's disease, the first MAPT mutation in Pick's disease and the SNCA triplication in Parkinson's disease. More recently, I have been analysing genome wide association studies for these diseases and developing whole genome expression analyses to aid in their interpretation. Furthermore, I have been become very interested in the analysis of patient derived stem cells through these approaches as a mechanism by which to design and analyse more complete models of these major diseases.

PUBLICATIONS

I have published over 900 papers in peer-reviewed Journals (see http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2451-2009).

STUDENT SUPERVISION

Over the past 10 years alone I have co/ and supervised over 30 PhD/MD students