Dr Andrew Singleton, director of the Centre for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
A University of Sunderland graduate, Dr Singleton, will share the $3 million award with two other researchers, Dr Ellen Sidransky, principal investigator at NIH, and Professor Thomas Gasser, director of the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Together the researchers identified GBA1 and LRRK2 as risk genes for Parkinson’s disease, implicating autophagy and lysosomal biology as critical contributors to the pathogenesis of the disease.
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