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Summary: Karen Duff, Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute and a leading researcher in neurodegenerative diseases, discusses the importance of understanding and finding solutions for these devastating diseases.
Karen Duff, current Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute (University College London, London, UK) and leading researcher in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, does not hesitate when speaking about the path that her life’s work has taken. “The whole spectrum of neurological diseases for which there’s so little understanding—they’re so devastating. Fixing them would have such an enormous impact on so many people’s lives. It just was absolutely the right field for me.”