Leucine rich repeat kinase 2: From pathology to physiology and back // Patrick Lewis

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Patrick Lewis is an Associate Professor in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Reading School of Pharmacy.

He has been investigating neurodegeneration for the past 15 years.

First working on Alzheimer's disease at the Mayo Clinic in Florida, then on prion disease (including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and "Mad Cow" disease) at the MRC Prion Unit before starting to work on what causes Parkinson's disease at the National Institute on Aging and the UCL Institute of Neurology. Most of his research is focused on looking at how mutations in particular genes can cause brain cells to die, leading to Parkinson's, with a focus on how Leucine Rich Repeat Kinase 2.

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