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Maria Grazia Spillantini

University of Cambridge · GB
Area of research
Neurology · Physiology
Research interest
Research interests include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding, and Neurological diseases and metabolism.
h-index
92
citations
48,858
works
304
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
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Recent publications

Astrocytes from P301S Tau mice exhibit non-canonical protein secretion and reduced morphological complexity.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Early α-synuclein–mediated mitochondrial dysfunction in a human cell model of Parkinson’s disease dementia
Communications Biology 2026cited by 0position: middledoi
Proteomizer: Leveraging the Transcriptome-Proteome Mismatch to Infer Novel Gene Regulatory Relations
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Alpha-synuclein aggregation and dopaminergic neuron death in a new mouse model of Parkinson’s disease expressing human full-length and C-terminally truncated 1- 120 alpha-synuclein
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
GhostBuster: A Deep-Learning-based, Literature-Unbiased Gene Prioritization Tool for Gene Annotation Prediction
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Alpha-synuclein pathological deposition alters functional homeostasis and connectivity of striatal dopaminergic synapses and results in microglia activation, pathology spreading, muscle stiffness, whole brain atrophy and metabolic changes before producing frank nigral neuron deafferentation
Research Square 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
The pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease
The Lancet 2024cited by 823position: middledoi
α-Synuclein oligomers form by secondary nucleation
Nature Communications 2024cited by 50position: middledoi
Aging, Parkinson’s Disease, and Models: What Are the Challenges?
2023cited by 8position: middledoi
Targeting tau degradation: a viable therapeutic approach?
The Lancet Neurology 2023cited by 1position: middledoi
Synapsin III gene silencing redeems alpha-synuclein transgenic mice from Parkinson's disease-like phenotype
Molecular Therapy 2022cited by 24position: middledoi
Cryo-EM reconstruction of TMEM106B fold I-d filaments from case 18 with multiple system atrophy
EMPIAR dataset 2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Microglia become hypofunctional and release metalloproteases and tau seeds when phagocytosing live neurons with P301S tau aggregates.
2021cited by 119position: contributordoi
Preclinical development of a high affinity α-synuclein antibody, MEDI1341, that can enter the brain, sequester extracellular α-synuclein and attenuate α-synuclein spreading in vivo
Neurobiology of Disease 2019cited by 117position: middledoi
Depopulation of dense α-synuclein aggregates is associated with rescue of dopamine neuron dysfunction and death in a new Parkinson's disease model.
2019cited by 98position: contributordoi
Retiring the term FTDP-17 as MAPT mutations are genetic forms of sporadic frontotemporal tauopathies
Brain 2017cited by 146position: middledoi
Regional expression of the MAPT gene is associated with loss of hubs in brain networks and cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease and progressive supranuclear palsy
Neurobiology of Aging 2016cited by 102position: middledoi
The role of tau in the pathological process and clinical expression of Huntington’s disease
Brain 2015cited by 137position: middledoi
Tau pathology and neurodegeneration
The Lancet Neurology 2013cited by 1,117position: firstdoi
100 years of Lewy pathology
Nature Reviews Neurology 2012cited by 1,174position: middledoi
Animal models of Parkinson's disease: Limits and relevance to neuroprotection studies
Movement Disorders 2012cited by 171position: lastdoi
Mechanisms underlying the impairment of hippocampal long-term potentiation and memory in experimental Parkinson’s disease
Brain 2012cited by 148position: middledoi
Mixed tau, TDP-43 and p62 pathology in FTLD associated with a C9ORF72 repeat expansion and p.Ala239Thr MAPT (tau) variant
Acta Neuropathologica 2012cited by 77position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

· 6 papers (2019–2026) · 2 papers (2022–2025)Michele Morari · University of Ferrara2 papers (2012–2025)Giorgio Vivacqua · Università Campus Bio-Medico2 papers (2023–2024) · 2 papers (2022–2025)Deniz Kirik · Lund University2 papers (2012–2023)Roger A. Barker · Research Network (United States)2 papers (2015–2016)Giulio Deangeli · University of Cambridge2 papers (2025–2025)Pietro Lio · Sapienza University of Rome2 papers (2025–2025)Aviva M. Tolkovsky · University of Cambridge2 papers (2021–2026)Erwan Bézard · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique2 papers (2012–2023)Arianna Bellucci · University of Padua2 papers (2022–2025) · 2 papers (2022–2025) · 2 papers (2022–2025)Michel Goedert · MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology2 papers (2012–2013)Jillian J. Kril · The University of Sydney1 papers (2017–2017)Michele Vendruscolo · University of Cambridge1 papers (2024–2024)Giulia Cisbani · Université Laval1 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2012–2012)Tuomas P. J. Knowles · University of Cambridge1 papers (2024–2024)