Karen Duff | |
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Born | 1965 (age 59–60) |
Alma mater | University of East Anglia Queens' College, Cambridge |
Awards | Potamkin Prize (2006) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pathology Cell Biology |
Institutions | University College London Columbia University New York University University of South Florida |
Thesis | A study of human and murine cardiac development using molecular genetics methodology (1991) |
Website | Karen Duff |
Karen Elizabeth Keitley Duff (born 1965) is a British scientist known for her work on Alzheimer's disease. Her most notable work focused on the development and characterization of mouse models of Alzheimer's disease amyloid deposition. [1] [2] She became Centre Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute's hub at University College London in spring 2020. [3]
She was educated at the University of East Anglia (BSc, 1987) and completed her PhD at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1991. At Cambridge she was a student of Sydney Brenner's department. She was awarded the Potamkin Prize in 2006, together with Karen Ashe and Bradley Hyman. [4] In 2020 she was awarded the British Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience. [5] She was formerly Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University. [6]
She has an h-index of 96 according to Google Scholar. [7]