Martin Neil Rossor (born 24 April 1950) is a British clinical neurologist with a specialty interest in degenerative dementias and familial disease.

Career

He is principal research associate at the

UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology The UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology is an institute within the Faculty of Brain Sciences of University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. Together with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, a ...

, honorary consultant neurologist at the

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (informally the National Hospital or Queen Square) is a neurological hospital in Queen Square, London. It is part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was the f ...

, and was the national director for Dementia Research for the

National Institute for Health Research The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government's major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, its mission is to "improv ...

(NIHR) in the UK. He was the editor of the ''

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry The ''Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the BMJ Group. It covers research and reviews in the fields of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry. Its editor-in-chief is Karen ...

'', president of the Association of British Neurologists, director of the NIHR Clinical Research Network for Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases, and director of the NIHR Queen Square Dementia Biomedical Research Unit.

Research

His collaborative work in identifying and characterising a large collection of familial cases of

Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease and the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems wit ...

contributed to the discovery of mutations in the

amyloid Amyloids are aggregates of proteins characterised by a fibrillar morphology of typically 7–13 nm in diameter, a β-sheet secondary structure (known as cross-β) and ability to be stained by particular dyes, such as Congo red. In the human ...

precursor protein gene. His recent research focuses on general cognitive impairment in systemic disease and multimorbidity including development of the Cognitive Footprint concept, which he co-authored in 2015.

Education and professional qualifications

Rosser attended

Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Jesus College was established in 1496 on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge, St ...

(1968-1971); and King's College, Hospital Medical School (1971-1974). He holds a Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery (1974); Master of Arts (1975); is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (1976); Doctor of Medicine (1986); and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1990). In 2022, he was elected a member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

Awards

* Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s disease Research of the Alzheimer Association (2009) * British Neuropsychiatry Association Medallist (2017) * Association of British Neurology Medallist (2017)

Plenary and named lectures

* 1995 FE Williams Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians * 1999 First McDonald Critchley Lecturer, World Federation of Neurology, London * 2003 Science Today, Health tomorrow – Royal Institution of Great Britain, London * 2008 Croonian Lecturer – Royal College of Physicians * 2010 Plenary Lecture American Neurological Association * 2012 Royal Society of Medicine Stevens Lecture for the Laity * 2017 King's College London Institute of Gerontology David Hobman Lecture

Publications

Rossor has authored nearly 900 publications. He has been on the Highly Cited Researcher list from Clarivate since 2018.

References

20th-century British medical doctors 21st-century British medical doctors Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Members of Academia Europaea British neurologists Academics of University College London NIHR Senior Investigators Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Alumni of King's College London Medical journal editors {{UK-med-bio-stub