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Rosa Rademakers

Rosa Rademakers

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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121
Citations
61890
World Ranking
524
National Ranking
7

Medicine

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128
Citations
67910
World Ranking
2688
National Ranking
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Rosa Rademakers is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable focus on subfields including Neurology, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's main topics of work reflect extensive engagement in neurodegenerative and neurological disease research, covering areas such as:

  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases

Rademakers has contributed to numerous publications across various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Brain
  • Acta Neuropathologica

Some of the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Rademakers include:

  • NanoPack2: population-scale evaluation of long-read sequencing data, 2023, Bioinformatics
  • Truncated stathmin-2 is a marker of TDP-43 pathology in frontotemporal dementia, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Validation of serum neurofilaments as prognostic and potential pharmacodynamic biomarkers for ALS, 2020, Neurology
  • Utility of the global CDR® plus NACC FTLD rating and development of scoring rules: Data from the ARTFL/LEFFTDS Consortium, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Homotypic fibrillization of TMEM106B across diverse neurodegenerative diseases, 2022, Cell

The scientist has worked with various frequent co-authors, indicating collaborative research efforts in their domain. Prominent collaborators include:

  • Dennis W. Dickson
  • Bradley F. Boeve
  • Ian R. Mackenzie
  • Maria Carmela Tartaglia
  • Neill R. Graff-Radford

Best Publications

  • Expanded GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat in noncoding region of C9ORF72 causes chromosome 9p-linked FTD and ALS

    Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez;Ian R. Mackenzie;Bradley F. Boeve;Adam L. Boxer

  • TREM2 Variants in Alzheimer's Disease

    Rita Guerreiro;Rita Guerreiro;Aleksandra Wojtas;Jose Bras;Minerva Carrasquillo

  • Mutations in progranulin cause tau-negative frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 17

    Matt Baker;Ian R. Mackenzie;Stuart M. Pickering-Brown;Jennifer Gass

  • Null mutations in progranulin cause ubiquitin-positive frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 17q21

    Marc Cruts;Ilse Gijselinck;Julie van der Zee;Sebastiaan Engelborghs

  • Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS

    Hong Joo Kim;Nam Chul Kim;Yong Dong Wang;Emily A. Scarborough

  • Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): consensus working group report.

    Peter T. Nelson;Dennis W. Dickson;John Q. Trojanowski;Clifford R. Jack

  • Unconventional Translation of C9ORF72 GGGGCC Expansion Generates Insoluble Polypeptides Specific to c9FTD/ALS

    Peter E.A. Ash;Kevin F. Bieniek;Tania F. Gendron;Thomas Caulfield

  • TDP-43 and FUS in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

    Ian R.A. Mackenzie;Rosa Rademakers;Manuela Neumann

  • A new subtype of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with FUS pathology.

    Manuela Neumann;Rosa Rademakers;Sigrun Roeber;Matt Baker

  • TDP-43 A315T mutation in familial motor neuron disease.

    Michael A. Gitcho;Robert H. Baloh;Sumi Chakraverty;Kevin Mayo

  • Progranulin Deficiency Promotes Circuit-Specific Synaptic Pruning by Microglia via Complement Activation.

    Hansen Lui;Jiasheng Zhang;Stefanie R. Makinson;Michelle K. Cahill

  • Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene.

    Aude Nicolas;Kevin P. Kenna;Alan E. Renton;Alan E. Renton;Nicola Ticozzi

  • 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

  • Mutations in progranulin are a major cause of ubiquitin-positive frontotemporal lobar degeneration

    Jennifer Gass;Ashley Cannon;Ian R. Mackenzie;Bradley Boeve

  • Common variants at 7p21 are associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 inclusions

    Vivianna M. Van Deerlin;Patrick M A Sleiman;Maria Martinez-Lage;Maria Martinez-Lage;Alice Chen-Plotkin

  • Wild-Type Human TDP-43 Expression Causes TDP-43 Phosphorylation, Mitochondrial Aggregation, Motor Deficits, and Early Mortality in Transgenic Mice

    Ya Fei Xu;Tania F. Gendron;Yong Jie Zhang;Wen Lang Lin

  • TIA1 Mutations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia Promote Phase Separation and Alter Stress Granule Dynamics

    Ian R. Mackenzie;Alexandra M. Nicholson;Mohona Sarkar;James Messing

  • Antisense transcripts of the expanded C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat form nuclear RNA foci and undergo repeat-associated non-ATG translation in c9FTD/ALS

    Tania F Gendron;Kevin F. Bieniek;Yong-Jie Zhang;Karen Jansen-West

  • Longitudinal Modeling of Age-Related Memory Decline and the APOE ε4 Effect

    Richard J. Caselli;Amylou C. Dueck;David Osborne;Marwan N. Sabbagh

  • Mutations in the colony stimulating factor 1 receptor ( CSF1R ) gene cause hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids

    Rosa Rademakers;Matt Baker;Alexandra M Nicholson;Nicola J Rutherford

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley F. Boeve
Bradley F. Boeve Mayo Clinic
David S. Knopman
David S. Knopman Mayo Clinic
Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
Ian R. Mackenzie
Ian R. Mackenzie University of British Columbia
Ronald C. Petersen
Ronald C. Petersen University of Pennsylvania
Keith A. Josephs
Keith A. Josephs Mayo Clinic

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