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Michel Goedert

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Michel Goedert FRS, FMedSci is a Luxembourgish-British neuroscientist and former Head of Neurobiology, at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.[1]

Born and raised in Luxembourg, after finishing his medical studies at the University of Basel, 1986 he started working at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology affiliated with the University of Cambridge.

Goedert was awarded the Potamkin Prize in 1998 and the European Grand Prix for Research by the Foundation for Research on Alzheimer's disease in 2014. In 2018 he was one of four recipients of the Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize with the citation "For their groundbreaking research on the genetic and molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease, with far-reaching implications for the development of new therapeutic interventions as well as for the understanding of other neurodegenerative diseases of the brain"[2]

He is married to Maria Grazia Spillantini FRS, FMedSci. They have one son, Thomas.

Works

  • Irene Litvan, ed. (2005). "Neurodegenerative α-Synucleinopathies". Atypical Parkinsonian disorders: clinical and research aspects. Springer. ISBN 978-1-58829-331-2.

References

  1. ^ "Michel Goedert". Alzforum. 19 October 2008. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. ^ "The Brain Prize Winners 2018 - Lundbeckfonden - The Brain Prize". www.thebrainprize.org. Retrieved 2018-05-02.