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Lenora Higginbotham

Lenora Higginbotham

Co-PI (Core Leadership)

Emory University School of Medicine

Lenora is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Emory University where she specializes in movement disorders. She completed her medical school training at Emory University and neurology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She then returned to Emory for a clinical movement disorders fellowship before joining neurology faculty in 2018. In addition to seeing clinic patients, Dr. Higginbotham conducts research focused on protein biomarker discovery in Lewy body dementia, including Parkinson’s disease dementia and Dementia with Lewy bodies.

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Fibril Alpha-synuclein Protein aggregates Pathology Proteomics Cryo-EM Seeding assays Cryo-ET Fluid-based biomarkers PD heterogeneity: alpha-synuclein seeding

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