Karen Morrison

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Karen Morrison

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  • 90 Lisburn Road

    United Kingdom

1985 …2023

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As Dean of Education in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Professor Karen Morrison has leadership responsibility for all undergraduate and taught Masters programmes in the 4 Schools of the Faculty, alongside representing MHLS educational activity at senior University level.  Her ethos in leading education is to ensure that our graduates have the maximum opportunity to be equipped with the clinical, academic and professional skills to ensure successful careers across the wide spectrum of health and life sciences.

She has been a research active clinical academic for decades, with internationally recognised research expertise in genetic and clinical aspects of neurodegenerative disease, with specific focus on motor neurone disease, MND/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

She continues her clinical work in Belfast as a Consultant Neurologist, leading the N. Ireland MND Regional Clinic in the Belfast Health & Social Care Trust.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

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  • Genetic variability in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Van Daele, S. H., Moisse, M., van Vugt, J. J. F. A., Zwamborn, R. A. J., van der Spek, R., van Rheenen, W., Van Eijk, K., Kenna, K., Corcia, P., Vourc'h, P., Couratier, P., Hardiman, O., McLaughin, R., Gotkine, M., Drory, V., Ticozzi, N., Silani, V., Ratti, A., de Carvalho, M., Mora Pardina, J. S., & 14 othersPovedano, M., Andersen, P. M., Weber, M., Başak, N. A., Shaw, C., Shaw, P. J., Morrison, K. E., Landers, J. E., Glass, J. D., van Es, M., van den Berg, L. H., Al-Chalabi, A., Veldink, J. & Van Damme, P., Sep 2023, In: Brain. 146, 9, p. 3760-3769 10 p.

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  • Investigation of shared genetic risk factors between Parkinson's disease and cancers

    Sugier, PE., Lucotte, E. A., Domenighetti, C., Law, M. H., Iles, M. M., Brown, K., Amos, C., McKay, J. D., Hung, R. J., Karimi, M., Bacq‐Daian, D., Boland‐Augé, A., Olaso, R., Deleuze, J., Lesueur, F., Ostroumova, E., Kesminiene, A., de Vathaire, F., Guénel, P., Sreelatha, A. A. K., & 32 othersSchulte, C., Grover, S., May, P., Bobbili, D. R., Radivojkov‐Blagojevic, M., Lichtner, P., Singleton, A. B., Hernandez, D. G., Edsall, C., Mellick, G. D., Zimprich, A., Pirker, W., Rogaeva, E., Lang, A. E., Koks, S., Taba, P., Lesage, S., Brice, A., Corvol, JC., Chartier‐Harlin, MC., Mutez, E., Brockmann, K., Deutschländer, A. B., Hadjigeorgiou, G. M., Dardiotis, E., Stefanis, L., Simitsi, A. M., Valente, E. M., Petrucci, S., Morrison, K. E., the EPITHYR consortium & the Comprehensive Unbiased Risk Factor Assessment for Genetics and Environment in Parkinson's Disease (Courage‐PD) consortium, 14 Feb 2023, (Early online date) In: Movement Disorders.

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  • Large-scale analyses of CAV1 and CAV2 suggest their expression is higher in post-mortem ALS brain tissue and affects survival

    Adey, B. N., Cooper-Knock, J., Al Khleifat, A., Fogh, I., van Damme, P., Corcia, P., Couratier, P., Hardiman, O., McLaughlin, R., Gotkine, M., Drory, V., Silani, V., Ticozzi, N., Veldink, J. H., van den Berg, L. H., de Carvalho, M., Pinto, S., Mora Pardina, J. S., Povedano Panades, M., Andersen, P. M., & 13 othersWeber, M., Başak, N. A., Shaw, C. E., Shaw, P. J., Morrison, K. E., Landers, J. E., Glass, J. D., Vourc'h, P., Dobson, R. J. B., Breen, G., Al-Chalabi, A., Jones, A. R. & Iacoangeli, A., 02 Mar 2023, In: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 17, 1112405.

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  • Serum neurofilaments in motor neuron disease and their utility in differentiating ALS, PMA and PLS

    McCluskey, G., Morrison, K. E., Donaghy, C., McConville, J., McCarron, M. O., McVerry, F., Duddy, W., Duguez, S. & Villa, C. (ed.), Jun 2023, In: Life. 13, 6, 1301.

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  • The contribution of Neanderthal introgression and natural selection to neurodegenerative diseases

    Chen, Z., Reynolds, R. H., Pardiñas, A. F., Gagliano Taliun, S. A., van Rheenen, W., Lin, K., Shatunov, A., Gustavsson, E. K., Fogh, I., Jones, A. R., Robberecht, W., Corcia, P., Chiò, A., Shaw, P. J., Morrison, K. E., Veldink, J. H., van den Berg, L. H., Shaw, C. E., Powell, J. F., Silani, V., & 6 othersHardy, J. A., Houlden, H., Owen, M. J., Turner, M. R., Ryten, M. & Al-Chalabi, A., 01 May 2023, In: Neurobiology of Disease. 180, 8 p., 106082.

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