Alison Murray MBChB, MRCP, FRCR, FRCP, PhD

Professor Alison Murray is the Roland Sutton Professor of Radiology at the University of Aberdeen. She is Director of the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre (www.abdn.ac.uk/ims/research/abic), Lilian Sutton Building, University of Aberdeen. This houses the 3T research magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. Research MRI facilities are located within the acute NHS hospital and are immediately adjacent to the John Mallard Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Centre and the NHS Department of Nuclear Medicine, facilitating combined studies of brain structure and function.

She leads clinical brain imaging research in multimodal brain imaging correlates of brain ageing and dementia-related diseases and recent work includes MRI in the local Generation Scotland sample as part of a Scotland-wide study Stratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinaly, MRI in the Aberdeen 1936 Birth Cohort, and MRI, regional cerebral blood flow SPECT and FDG PET in clinical trials of novel Tau Aggregation Inhibitor therapies in Alzheimer's disease. Particular interests are the relative contributions of biomarkers of disease burden and life-course factors to the balance of cognitive reserve and resilience versus dementia and frailty.