Maria Grazia Spillantini
Co-PI (Core Leadership)
University of Cambridge
Maria Grazia Spillantini is Professor of Molecular Neurology in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. Her interest is on alpha-synucleinopathies and tauopathies. With her collaborators, she identified alpha-synuclein as the component of the filaments that form the Lewy bodies in Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and the glial inclusions in multiple system atrophy and described one of the first mutations in the MAPT gene causing frontotemporal dementia. She has received several awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Knight Officer of the Star of Italy.
