Maria Grazia Spillantini
Advisory Board
Contract Anesthesia Inc
Liechtenstein
Biography
Maria Grazia Spillantini FMedSci FRS, is Professor of Molecular Neurology in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. In 2013, she was elected as a fellow of The Royal Society. She is most noted for identifying the protein alpha-synuclein as the major component of Lewy bodies, the characteristic protein deposit found in the brain in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.
Research Interest
Biochemistry
