Zane Jaunmuktane, MD

Zane Jaunmuktane is a Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Neuropathologist at the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders and in the Division of Neuropathology, Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London. Together with colleagues, she was the first to demonstrate that under certain circumstances, amyloid-beta pathology is transmissible in humans. Zane’s main interest is in the cell-to-cell spreading and regional propagation mechanisms of misfolded proteins and how concomitant pathologies determine disease progression and symptom severity.

University College London | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Co-PI (Core Leadership)

Zane Jaunmuktane, MD

University College London

Zane Jaunmuktane is a Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Neuropathologist at the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders and in the Division of Neuropathology, Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, University College London. Together with colleagues, she was the first to demonstrate that under certain circumstances, amyloid-beta pathology is transmissible in humans. Zane’s main interest is in the cell-to-cell spreading and regional propagation mechanisms of misfolded proteins and how concomitant pathologies determine disease progression and symptom severity.