Steve Gentleman is Professor of Neuropathology and Deputy Head of the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London.
He is Scientific Director of the Parkinson’s UK Brain Bank and chair of the Brains for Dementia Research (BDR) management committee. His research interests are in the neuropathology of neurodegenerative disorders in terms of determining how pathology spreads though the brain and how that relates to the clinical symptoms seen in life. His team have recently been studying the strain like variants of alpha-synuclein protein seen in Parkinson’s and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) to determine if their aggregation characteristics may provide useful biomarkers of disease.