Jonathan Rohrer

Jon leads the FTD talk team. He is an MRC Clinician Scientist at the Dementia Research Centre in the Queen Square UCL Institute of Neurology as well as a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. After a Natural Sciences degree at the University of Cambridge he went on to do Medicine at the University of Oxford and UCL. He started as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow in 2005 at UCL where he first began to study FTD, working on the neuroimaging of genetic FTD, and completing his PhD in 2010. He then became an NIHR Clinical Lecturer during which time he started the Genetic FTD Initiative, GENFI, an international multicentre cohort study of presymptomatic genetic FTD. The research of his team focuses on the development of novel biomarkers in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). He co-leads the UCL/UCLH Biomedical Research Centre Dementia Biomarkers Theme and sits on the UCL Neurogenetics Therapies Programme Clinical Steering Committee. He also runs FTD UK, an annual scientific meeting of UK researchers who work in the FTD field, co-chairs the FTD Prevention Initiative (FPI) and is vice-chair for the Alzheimer’s Association Professional Interest Area in FTD. He runs the national FTD and fFTD support groups in the UK through Rare Dementia Support.