Alison Goate

Alison Mary Goate is a professor of neuroscience and Director of the Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City. She was previously professor of genetics in psychiatry, professor of genetics, and professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine.

The Goate Lab studies the genetics and molecular bases of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and alcoholism.

Education and early career

After receiving her undergraduate degree in biochemistry at the University of Bristol (UK) and her graduate training at Oxford University (UK), Goate studied under Professors Theodore Puck, Professor Louis Lim and Dr. John Hardy. She received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to conduct research at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London.

Awards and affiliations

She has received the Potamkin Prize from the American Academy of Neurology (1993), the Zenith Award from the Alzheimer's Association, Senior Investigator Award from the Metropolitan Life Foundation, the St. Louis Academy of Science Innovation Award, Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award at Washington University in St. Louis. (1994), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer's Association (2015). She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She also serves on the faculty of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders and as an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Research

Goate's research centers on the genetics of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias that led to the development of animal and cellular models and the development of anti-amyloid and anti-tau therapies. She has been the principal investigator on four grants and has co-invented and awarded six patents.

Patents

• APP770 mutant in alzheimer's disease, (1999).
• Mutant S182 genes, (1999).
• Method for elucidation and detection of polymorphisms, splice variants, and proximal coding mutations using intronic sequences of the Alzheimer's S182 gene, (2000).
• Transgenic mouse expressing an APP-FAD DNA sequence, (2001).
• Pathogenic Tau mutations, (2002).
• Markers for addiction, (2011).

Grants

Partial list:

Publications

Semantic Scholar lists 483 publications, 22,943 citations and 1,808 influential citations of Goate's peer-reviewed and original contribution as of 2019.

Partial list:

• Goate, A.; et al. (1991). "Segregation of a missense mutation in the amyloid precursor protein gene with familial Alzheimer's disease". Nature. 349 (6311): 704–706. Bibcode:1991Natur.349..704G. doi:10.1038/349704a0. PMID 1671712. S2CID 4336069. Cited by 5017 as of October 18, 2019.
• De Strooper, B.; et al. (1999). "A presenilin-1-dependent gamma-secretase-like protease mediates release of Notch intracellular domain". Nature. 398 (6727): 518–22. Bibcode:1999Natur.398..518D. doi:10.1038/19083. PMID 10206645. S2CID 4346474. Cited by 2274 as of October 18, 2019.
• Saccone, S. F.; et al. (2007). "Cholinergic nicotinic receptor genes implicated in a nicotine dependence association study targeting 348 candidate genes with 3713 SNPS". Human Molecular Genetics. 16 (1): 36–49. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddl438. PMC 2270437. PMID 17135278. Cited by 793 as of October 18, 2019
• Bierut, L. J.; et al. (2007). "Novel genes identified in a high-density genome wide association study for nicotine dependence". Human Molecular Genetics. 16 (1): 24–35. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddl441. PMC 2278047. PMID 17158188. Cited by 604 as of October 18, 2019.
• Kehoe, P.; et al. (1999). "A full genome scan for late onset Alzheimer's disease". Human Molecular Genetics. 8 (2): 237–45. doi:10.1093/hmg/8.2.237. PMID 9931331. Cited by 419 as of October 18, 2019
• Foroud, T.; et al. (2000). "Alcoholism susceptibility loci: Confirmation studies in a replicate sample and further mapping". Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 24 (7): 933–45. doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.2000.tb04634.x. PMID 10923994. Cited by 275 as of October 18, 2019.

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