Margaret Esiri

Clinical neuropathology with an interest particularly in dementia and multiple sclerosis
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Tel 01865 234403
Fax 01865 231157
Contact address Neuropathology Department, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom

Research summary

Prof Margaret Esiri

Research activities are mainly in fields related to the use of brain tissue in the Thomas Willis Oxford Brain Collection, including many cases of dementia and elderly controls and multiple sclerosis. In dementia current interest centres on determining to what extent, and in what way, cerebrovascular disease contributes to dementia. In multiple sclerosis I collaborate with Dr DeLuca in understanding the manner in which genetic variables in multiple sclerosis translate into pathological changes in the brain and spinal cord in that disease.

Sources of Funding

  • Alzheimer’s Brain Bank UK 2008- 2013
  • Austica 2009- 2012

Awards Training and Qualifications

  • BA Physiology  Oxford 1963
  • BM BCh  Oxford 1967
  • Bsc  Oxford 1969

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