Rita Horvath is a Hungarian

neurologist Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...

and researcher. She completed her

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mitochondrial A mitochondrion () is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi. Mitochondria have a double membrane structure and use aerobic respiration to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is used ...

disease and research in

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from 1999 to 2007. She researches key molecular diseases and their mechanisms, with the aim of developing treatments for patients with rare inherited neurological conditions.

Research

Rita Horvath started her

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at Professor Eric Shoubridge's laboratory, where she completed her PhD on mitochondrial disease: a group of medical disorders caused by

mutations In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. Viral genomes contain either DNA or RNA. Mutations result from errors during DNA or viral replication, mitosi ...

mitochondria A mitochondrion () is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi. Mitochondria have a double membrane structure and use aerobic respiration to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is us ...

. Following her PhD, Horvath developed a new service to follow up on patients with inherited peripheral neuropathies to develop treatments for patients with rare neurological conditions.

Membership

Horvath is a member of

Ataxia Ataxia (from Greek α- negative prefix+ -τάξις rder= "lack of order") is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality, speech changes, and abnormalities in e ...

UK, the Medical Advisory Board and the Society of

Neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

; she further has research grants from MRC Cellular and Molecular Biology Board Research Grant, for example.

Publications

*Gorman GS, Schaefer AM, Ng Y, Gomez N, Blakely EL, Alston CL, Feeney C, Horvath R, Yu‐Wai‐Man P, Chinnery PF, Taylor RW. Prevalence of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA mutations related to adult mitochondrial disease. ''

Annals of Neurology ''Annals of Neurology'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal publishing articles of "broad interest in neurology, particularly those with high impact in understanding the mechanisms and treatment of diseases of the human nervous system." The journal ...

'' 2015 May;77(5):753-9. According to

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, it has been cited 567 times.
Google Scholar Author page, Accessed July 1 2021 *Horvath R, Hudson G, Ferrari G, Fütterer N, Ahola S, Lamantea E, Prokisch H, Lochmüller H, McFarland R, Ramesh V, Klopstock T. Phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations of the mitochondrial polymerase γ gene. '' Brain (journal), Brain. 2006 Jul 1;129(7):1674-84.According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 403 times *Hudson G, Carelli V, Spruijt L, Gerards M, Mowbray C, Achilli A, Pyle A, Elson J, Howell N, La Morgia C, Valentino ML. Clinical expression of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy is affected by the mitochondrial DNA–haplogroup background.'' The American Journal of Human Genetics''. 2007 Aug 1;81(2):228-33. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 351 times

References

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