Martin Neil Rossor , is a British clinical neurologist with a specialty interest in degenerative dementias and familial disease.

Career

He is professor emeritus and principal research associate at the

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, honorary consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and was the national director for Dementia Research for the

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(NIHR) in the UK. He was the editor of the ''

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'', president of the

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, director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network for Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases, and director of the NIHR Queen Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit.

Research

His collaborative work in identifying and characterising a large collection of familial cases of Alzheimer’s disease contributed to the discovery of mutations in the amyloid precursor protein gene. His recent research focuses on general cognitive impairment in systemic disease and multimorbidity including development of the Cognitive Footprint concept, which he co-authored in 2015.

Education and professional qualifications

Rosser attended

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(1968-197); and King's College, Hospital Medical School (1971-1974). He holds a Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery (1974); Master of Arts (1975); is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (1976); Doctor of Medicine (1986); and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1990).

Awards

* Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s disease Research of the Alzheimer Association (2009) * British Neuropsychiatry Association Medallist (2017) * Association of British Neurology Medallist (2017)

Plenary and named lectures

* 1995 FE Williams Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians * 1999 First McDonald Critchley Lecturer, World Federation of Neurology, London * 2003 Science Today, Health tomorrow – Royal Institution of Great Britain, London * 2008 Croonian Lecturer – Royal College of Physicians * 2010 Plenary Lecture American Neurological Association * 2012 Royal Society of Medicine Stevens Lecture for the Laity * 2017 King's College London Institute of Gerontology David Hobman Lecture

Publications

Rossor has authored nearly 900 publications. He has been on the Highly Cited Researcher list from Clarivate since 2018.

References

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