Science Minds Podcast

This episode features Professor Alison Goate, who is a professor of Neuroscience and the Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York city. Her lab there studies the molecular genetics of Dementia.

Alison and her research team have made significant contributions to our understanding of the genetic causes underlying neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer's by using human genomic methods such as genome-wide association studies and exome sequencing.

This episode features Sarah Tabrizi, who is a Professor of Clinical Neurology at University College, London. As a doctor and a scientist, Sarah's professional career has centered around the devastating neurodegenerative condition - Huntington's Disease.

We discuss some of the exciting new work on a potential therapy for Huntington's and touch of many other topics, personal and professional, that are close to Sarah's heart.

In this episode, Vinoy talks to Dr.Tara Spires-Jones, professor at the University of Edinburgh and the UK Dementia Research Institute.

In this episode, Vinoy talks to Silvio Rizzoli, professor and director at the Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology of the University Medical Center in Göttingen.