Dr. András Lakatos

Biography

András Lakatos obtained his degree in medicine and pursued PhD studies in glial cell biology at the Beatson Institute in Cambridge. He completed basic specialty training in general medicine and higher specialist training in neurology at Cambridge University Hospitals. During his clinical training, he held a clinical lectureship in medicine and received the Walker fellowship in neurosciences from 2010 to 2013, which helped him kick-start his independent research group. In 2017, he was awarded the MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship, leading a regenerative neurobiology laboratory at the University of Cambridge while practicing clinical neurology as an academic consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His research focuses on glial cells, specifically astrocytes, which are emerging as central players in the regulation of normal neuronal network development and the function disruption seen in neurodegenerative diseases. He explores the beneficial and detrimental responses of astrocytes to neuronal signals and aims to uncover the mechanisms that regulate these responses, with the goal of providing alternative neuroprotective therapeutic targets for various neurodegenerative disorders. He employs mouse and human stem cell-based disease model systems combined with cell-type specific transcriptomics and computational approaches to mechanistically explore astrocyte-neuron interactions in health and models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

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