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

She received her PhD from Sydney Brenner’s department at the University of Cambridge in 1991. She undertook postdoc positions in London with Alison Goate from 1991-1992, and John Hardy at the University of South Florida from 1992-1994. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida from 1993-1996, Associate Professor at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville from 1996-1998, and Professor at the New York University Nathan Kline Institute from 1998-2006 followed by Columbia University from 2006-2019 where she was deputy director of the Taub Institute.

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 and most recently the British Neuroscience Association award for Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience in 2020 and Fellowship of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2022.