Titans of Science returns with Tara Spires-Jones, a world-leading neurobiology researcher and Director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She studies the mechanisms and reversibility of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer&#x27;s disease and other degenerative brain diseases. We explore Tara&#x27;s path to neuroscience, the history and biology of Alzheimer&#x27;s, and treatments developed to overcome it. Tara has been speaking with Chris Smith. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Titans of Science: Tara Spires-Jones

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[SPEAKER_C] Tara Spires-Jones was born on the 8th of April, 1976, in Uvalde, Texas. She attended Leander High School before completing a double honours in biochemistry and French at the University of Texas, at Austin. In 1999, she flew across the pond to undertake postgraduate studies in neuroscience at the University of Oxford before heading back to the US to Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School as a researcher. Tara has lived in the Scottish capital since 2013, and she's now Professor of Neurodegeneration and the Director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Last year, she was appointed co-lead of the Synapses, Circuits, Cognition and Physiology Division at the UK Dementia Research Institute.

Titans of Science: Tara Spires-Jones

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Titans of Science: Tara Spires-Jones

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.