Maura Malpetti

About

Maura is a Senior Research Associate and a Race Against Dementia Alzheimer’s Research UK Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She originally trained for her BSc and MSc in Milan, where she worked in nuclear medicine with FDG PET in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.

She then moved to the University of Cambridge for her PhD in Clinical Neurosciences, working on in vivo neuroimaging makers, longitudinal and prognostic modelling in tauopathies.

She trained further as a visiting researcher at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Memory and Aging Center, and the Ludwig Maximilian University Klinikum of Munich. Her research focusses on in vivo biomarkers for inflammation, tau and synaptic loss to investigate the pathophysiology of frontotemporal dementia, primary tauopathies 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 and prognostic markers that can inform the design of new disease-modifying treatment strategies. When she is not in the lab, you can find her cooking Italian dishes, taking care of aquariums/ponds and being around old cars.