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John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD

Interim Director, Institute on Aging
Co-Director,Center of Neurodegenerative
Disease Research
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Email: trojanow@mail.med.upenn.edu
Phone: (215) 662-6399
Fax: (215) 349-5909
Address:
Maloney 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283

Education

• 1976 Tufts University: MD, PhD

Research/Clinical Interests

• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Dementia
• Normal memory loss

Selected Publications

Giasson, B., Jakes, R., Goedert, M., Duda, J., Leight, S., Trojanowski, J.Q., and Lee, V.M.-Y. A panel of epitope-specific antibodies detects protein domains distributed throughout human alpha-synuclein in Lewy bodies of Parkinson’s disease. J. Neurosci. Res., 59:528-533, 2000. 360.

Duda, J.E., Giasson, B.I., Gur, T.L., Montine, T.J., Robertson, D., Biaggiono, I., Hurtig, H., Stern, M.B., Gollump S.M., Grossman, M., Lee, V.M.-Y., and Trojanowski, J.Q. Immunohistochemical and biochemical profile of distinct alpha- synuclein permutations in multiple system atrophy. J. Neuropathol. and Exp. Neurol., 59:830-841, 2000. 366.

Duda, J.E., Giasson, B.I., Chen, Q., Gur, T.L., Hurtig, H.I., Stern, M.B., Gollomp, S.M., Ischiropoulos, H., Lee, V.M.-Y. and Trojanowski, J.Q. Widespread nitration of pathological inclusions in neurodegenerative synucleinopathies. Am. J. Pathol., 157:1439-1445, 2000. 367.

Giasson, B. I., Duda, J.E., Murray, I.V., Chen, Q., Souza, J.M., Hurtig, H.I., Ischiropoulos, H., Trojanowski, J.Q. and Lee, V.M.-Y.Oxidative damage linked to neurodegeneration by selective alpha-synuclein nitration in synucleinopathy lesions. Science, 290:985-989, 2000.

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