We are delighted to announce that Dr Maura Malpetti (UK DRI at Cambridge) has won the 2025 European Young Researcher Award from the Fondation Recherche Alzheimer in France.
This leading French foundation funds the advancement of research in Alzheimer's disease and related syndromes in France and beyond. To support this work, it founded its European grand prize awards, including the €10,000 European Young Researcher Award. The award encourages an individual European researcher with exceptionally promising work.
Dr Maura Malpetti is an Emerging Leader at the UK DRI at Cambridge, and an Assistant Research Professor and Race Against Dementia Alzheimer’s Research UK Fellow in the University of Cambridge Department of Clinical Neurosciences.
I feel very honoured to receive this prize, which has had such remarkable awardees in previous years. This recognition to me reflects both the wonderful research journey I am so fortunate to share with my incredible team and amazing collaborators who create true joy in research work, and the dedication of people with lived experience who continuously contribute so much to our research and inspire our work every day.
Emerging Leader
Dr Malpetti originally trained at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, where she worked in nuclear medicine on PET in dementia, and then at the University of Cambridge undertaking her doctoral studies in Clinical Neurosciences. After her PhD, she joined both the University of California San Francisco, and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a visiting researcher.
Maura's research focusses on in vivo biomarkers for inflammation, tau, and synaptic loss to investigate the pathophysiology of frontotemporal dementia and related disorders. To this end, her lab integrates PET imaging and clinical data with fluid markers and post-mortem pathology to identify and validate early diagnostic/prognostic markers and therapeutic targets that can inform the design of new disease-modifying treatment strategies.
The Young Researcher Award 2025 is funded by Clariane.
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Source: University of Cambridge
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