Rimona S Weil

Rimona Weil is Professor of Neurology at the UCL Dementia Research Centre and an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She leads a Wellcome-funded research programme investigating Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia using neuroimaging and plasma markers. Alongside this, she leads a clinical service managing patients with Parkinson’s dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. She studied medicine at Downing College, Cambridge, followed by UCL. Her PhD examined the integration of visual signals in the healthy and damaged brain. She was awarded a post-doctoral UCL Excellence Fellowship to study visual changes in Parkinson’s disease, followed by a Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship. Her ultimate aim is to develop treatments to slow the progression of dementia in Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.