Ageing Seminars 2026 - Dr. Karen Duff

On April 24th , at 11.00am, Lisbon time, we welcome Doctor Karen Duff, who will be presenting “Tauopathy in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)”.The seminar will be held at Hybrid Auditorium, Faculty of Medicine Building, Campus I – Central Building, 2nd Floor, University of Coimbra and online. For online attendance, registration is mandatory through this link. Registered participants will receive the a link one day before the seminar.

Bio: Professor Duff is the Centre Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London and Professor Emerita, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.

She received her PhD from Sydney Brenner’s department at the University of Cambridge. She undertook postdoc positions in London with Alison Goate and John Hardy at the University of South Florida. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, Associate Professor at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, and Professor at the New York University Nathan Kline Institute. Deputy director of the Taub Institute at Columbia University from 2006 - 2019.

Professor Duff explores disease mechanisms and test therapeutic approaches to Alzheimer’s disease, FTD and other dementias. Her current interests are exploring the mechanisms involved in the spread of pathogenic proteins within the brain, understanding the basis of selective cellular vulnerability and resilience to tauopathy and developing new mouse and cell models to understand the earliest stages in tau pathogenesis.

Professor Duff has published 140 peer-reviewed research articles and received several prizes including the Potemkin Prize in 2006, the British Neuroscience Association award for Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience in 2020 and Fellowship of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2022.

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