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Alexandra Durr

Alexandra Durr

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Genetics
France
2026

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Best Female Scientists

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136
Citations
75634
World Ranking
271
National Ranking
12

Genetics

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136
Citations
74711
World Ranking
211
National Ranking
4

Medicine

D-Index
138
Citations
76320
World Ranking
1823
National Ranking
49

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in France Leader Award

Overview

Alexandra Durr is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and focuses on research in neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans several main and subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, genetics, and cell biology. The scientist's research intersects multiple areas related to neurodegenerative and hereditary neurological disorders, mitochondrial function, and neurological diseases and metabolism.

They have contributed to scientific literature on topics including:

  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Hereditary Neurological Disorders
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research

Alexandra Durr has published extensively in well-known venues with frequent contributions to:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Movement Disorders
  • Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Revue Neurologique

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Huntington's disease alters human neurodevelopment, 2020, Science
  • The cerebral network of COVID-19-related encephalopathy: a longitudinal voxel-based 18F-FDG-PET study, 2021, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Neurofilaments in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3: blood biomarkers at the preataxic and ataxic stage in humans and mice, 2020, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Tominersen in Adults with Manifest Huntington's Disease, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Progression characteristics of the European Friedreich's Ataxia Consortium for Translational Studies (EFACTS): a 4-year cohort study, 2021, The Lancet Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexandra Durr include:

  • Alexis Brice
  • Giulia Coarelli
  • Thomas Klockgether
  • Lüdger Schöls
  • Claire Ewenczyk

Best Publications

  • Second consensus statement on the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy

    S. Gilman;G. K. Wenning;P. A. Low;D. J. Brooks

  • Multicenter Analysis of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Parkinson's Disease

    Ellen Sidransky;Michael A. Nalls;Jan O. Aasly;Judith Aharon-Peretz

  • Scale for the assessment and rating of ataxia: development of a new clinical scale.

    T Schmitz-Hübsch;S Tezenas du Montcel;L Baliko;J Berciano

  • Association between Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease and Mutations in the Parkin Gene

    CB Lucking;A Durr;Bonifati;J Vaughan

  • Phenotype, genotype, and worldwide genetic penetrance of LRRK2-associated Parkinson's disease: a case-control study

    Daniel G Healy;Mario Falchi;Sean S O'Sullivan;Vincenzo Bonifati

  • Causal relation between α-synuclein locus duplication as a cause of familial Parkinson's disease

    P Ibáñez;A-M Bonnet;B Débarges;E Lohmann

  • Clinical and Genetic Abnormalities in Patients with Friedreich's Ataxia

    Alexandra Dürr;Mireille Cossee;Yves Agid;Victoria Campuzano

  • Biological and clinical manifestations of Huntington's disease in the longitudinal TRACK-HD study: cross-sectional analysis of baseline data.

    Sarah J Tabrizi;Douglas R Langbehn;Blair R Leavitt;Raymund A C Roos

  • Cloning of the gene for spinocerebellar ataxia 2 reveals a locus with high sensitivity to expanded CAG/glutamine repeats

    Georges Imbert;Frédéric Saudou;Frédéric Saudou;Gaël Yvert;Gaël Yvert;Didier Devys;Didier Devys

  • Cloning of the SCA7 gene reveals a highly unstable CAG repeat expansion

    Gilles David;Nacer Abbas;Giovanni Stevanin;Alexandra Dürr

  • Predictors of phenotypic progression and disease onset in premanifest and early-stage Huntington's disease in the TRACK-HD study: analysis of 36-month observational data

    Sarah J Tabrizi;Rachael I Scahill;Gail N Owen;Alexandra Durr

  • Frataxin is Reduced in Friedreich Ataxia Patients and is Associated with Mitochondrial Membranes

    Victoria Campuzano;Laura Montermini;Yves Lutz;Lidia Cova

  • G51D α-synuclein mutation causes a novel parkinsonian-pyramidal syndrome.

    Suzanne Lesage;Mathieu Anheim;Franck Letournel;Luc Bousset

  • Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias: polyglutamine expansions and beyond

    Alexandra Durr;Alexandra Durr

  • Spastin, a new AAA protein, is altered in the most frequent form of autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia

    Jamilé Hazan;Nùria Fonknechten;Delphine Mavel;Caroline Paternotte

  • A Wide Variety of Mutations in the Parkin Gene Are Responsible for Autosomal Recessive Parkinsonism in Europe

    Abbas N;Lücking Cb;Ricard S;Dürr A

  • LRRK2 G2019S as a Cause of Parkinson's Disease in North African Arabs

    Suzanne Lesage;Alexandra Dürr;Meriem Tazir;Ebba Lohmann

  • Identification of common variants influencing risk of the tauopathy progressive supranuclear palsy

    Günter U. Höglinger;Nadine M. Melhem;Dennis W. Dickson;Patrick M A Sleiman

  • Biological and clinical changes in premanifest and early stage Huntington's disease in the TRACK-HD study: the 12-month longitudinal analysis

    Sarah J Tabrizi;Rachael I Scahill;Alexandra Durr;Raymund A C Roos

  • Second consensus statement on the diagnosis of multiple system atrophy

    G. K. Wenning;S. Gilman;K. Seppi

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexis Brice
Alexis Brice Institut du Cerveau
Giovanni Stevanin
Giovanni Stevanin Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Sarah J. Tabrizi
Sarah J. Tabrizi University College London
Yves Agid
Yves Agid Institut du Cerveau
Blair R. Leavitt
Blair R. Leavitt University of British Columbia
Rachael I. Scahill
Rachael I. Scahill University College London
Mathieu Anheim
Mathieu Anheim University of Strasbourg
Raymund A.C. Roos
Raymund A.C. Roos Leiden University Medical Center
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen
Nicholas W. Wood
Nicholas W. Wood University College London

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