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Overview

Robert D. Moir was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research focused primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work in medicine. Specific subfields of study included physiology, molecular biology, clinical biochemistry, biological psychiatry, and microbiology.

The scientist contributed extensively to topics involving Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, connexins and lens biology, advanced glycation end products research, gut microbiota and health, tryptophan and brain disorders, antimicrobial peptides and activities, and protein hydrolysis and bioactive peptides.

The following are selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert D. Moir, including publication years and venues:

  • "Alzheimer's disease amyloid-β pathology in the lens of the eye," 2022, Experimental Eye Research
  • "Acute experimental colitis in 5xFAD Alzheimer's disease mice leads to enhanced monocyte infiltration into the brain accompanied by reduced β-amyloid deposition," 2025, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Aβ in the Lens of the Eye: A Noninvasively Detectable Early Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease β-Amyloidopathy in Humans and Transgenic Mouse Model," 2023, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Aβ in the Lens of the Eye: A Noninvasively Detectable Early Biomarker of Alzheimer's Disease β-Amyloidopathy in Humans and Transgenic Mouse Model," 2023, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Human amylin is a potent antimicrobial peptide that exhibits antimicrobial synergism with the amyloid beta protein," 2025, Alzheimer's & Dementia

Robert D. Moir frequently collaborated with several coauthors. These included Rudolph E. Tanzi, Juliet A. Moncaster, Olga Minaeva, Victor E. Alvarez, and John I. Clark. Collaborations with these researchers occurred multiple times, reflecting ongoing partnerships in relevant scientific areas.

The main venues where Robert D. Moir's work was published included:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Experimental Eye Research
  • Nature Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Treatment with a Copper-Zinc Chelator Markedly and Rapidly Inhibits β-Amyloid Accumulation in Alzheimer's Disease Transgenic Mice

    Robert A Cherny;Craig S Atwood;Michel E Xilinas;Danielle N Gray

  • The Aβ Peptide of Alzheimer's Disease Directly Produces Hydrogen Peroxide through Metal Ion Reduction†

    Xudong Huang;Craig S. Atwood;Mariana A. Hartshorn;Gerd Multhaup

  • Dramatic aggregation of Alzheimer abeta by Cu(II) is induced by conditions representing physiological acidosis.

    C. S. Atwood;R. D. Moir;Xudong Huang;R. C. Scarpa

  • The Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Amyloid β-Protein Is an Antimicrobial Peptide

    Stephanie J. Soscia;James E. Kirby;Kevin J. Washicosky;Stephanie M. Tucker

  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in blast-exposed military veterans and a blast neurotrauma mouse model.

    Lee E. Goldstein;Andrew M. Fisher;Chad A. Tagge;Xiao-Lei Zhang

  • Cu(II) Potentiation of Alzheimer Aβ Neurotoxicity CORRELATION WITH CELL-FREE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE PRODUCTION AND METAL REDUCTION

    Xudong Huang;Math P. Cuajungco;Craig S. Atwood;Mariana A. Hartshorn

  • Amyloid-β peptide protects against microbial infection in mouse and worm models of Alzheimer’s disease

    Deepak Kumar Vijaya Kumar;Se Hoon Choi;Kevin J. Washicosky;William A. Eimer

  • Characterization of copper interactions with alzheimer amyloid beta peptides: identification of an attomolar-affinity copper binding site on amyloid beta1-42.

    Craig S. Atwood;Richard C. Scarpa;Xudong Huang;Robert D. Moir

  • Iron-Export Ferroxidase Activity of β-Amyloid Precursor Protein Is Inhibited by Zinc in Alzheimer's Disease

    James A. Duce;Andrew Tsatsanis;Michael A. Cater;Simon A. James

  • Metalloenzyme-like Activity of Alzheimer's Disease β-Amyloid Cu-DEPENDENT CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF DOPAMINE, CHOLESTEROL, AND BIOLOGICAL REDUCING AGENTS TO NEUROTOXIC H2O2

    Carlos Opazo;Xudong Huang;Robert A. Cherny;Robert D. Moir

  • Nuclear lamins: building blocks of nuclear architecture

    Robert D. Goldman;Yosef Gruenbaum;Yosef Gruenbaum;Robert D. Moir;Dale K. Shumaker

  • Alzheimer-associated presenilins 1 and 2: Neuronal expression in brain and localization to intracellular membranes in mammalian cells

    Dora M. Kovacs;Hillary J. Fausett;Keith J. Page;Tae Wan Kim

  • Studies of the lamin proteinase reveal multiple parallel biochemical pathways during apoptotic execution

    Yuri A. Lazebnik;Atsushi Takahashi;Robert D. Moir;Robert D. Goldman

  • The amyloid protein precursor of Alzheimer's disease is a mediator of the effects of nerve growth factor on neurite outgrowth

    Elizabeth A. Milward;Roula Papadopoulos;Stephanie J. Fuller;Robert D. Moir

  • Cleavage of lamin A by Mch2 alpha but not CPP32: multiple interleukin 1 beta-converting enzyme-related proteases with distinct substrate recognition properties are active in apoptosis.

    Atsushi Takahashi;Emad S. Alnemri;Yuri A. Lazebnik;Yuri A. Lazebnik;Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri

  • LDL receptor-related protein, a multifunctional ApoE receptor, binds secreted beta-amyloid precursor protein and mediates its degradation.

    M Z Kounnas;R D Moir;G W Rebeck;A I Bush

  • Clearance of Alzheimer's Aβ Peptide: The Many Roads to Perdition

    R.E. Tanzi;R.D. Moir;S.L. Wagner

  • Alzheimer's Disease-Associated β-Amyloid Is Rapidly Seeded by Herpesviridae to Protect against Brain Infection.

    William A. Eimer;Deepak Kumar Vijaya Kumar;Nanda Kumar Navalpur Shanmugam;Alex S. Rodriguez

  • Cytosolic β-amyloid deposition and supranuclear cataracts in lenses from people with Alzheimer's disease

    Lee E Goldstein;Julien A Muffat;Robert A Cherny;Robert D Moir

  • A Heparin-binding Domain in the Amyloid Protein Precursor of Alzheimer's Disease Is Involved in the Regulation of Neurite Outgrowth

    DH Small;V Nurcombe;G Reed;H Clarris

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolph E. Tanzi
Rudolph E. Tanzi Harvard University
Ashley I. Bush
Ashley I. Bush Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Xudong Huang
Xudong Huang Harvard University
Robert D. Goldman
Robert D. Goldman Northwestern University
Konrad Beyreuther
Konrad Beyreuther Heidelberg University
Jack T. Rogers
Jack T. Rogers Harvard University
Colin L. Masters
Colin L. Masters University of Melbourne
John I. Clark
John I. Clark University of Washington
David H. Small
David H. Small University of Tasmania
Bradley T. Hyman
Bradley T. Hyman Harvard University

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