Associate ProfessorEleanor Drummond

Eleanor Drummond is a neuroscientist who is passionate about understanding the cause of neurodegenerative disease. She received her PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2012. She then worked as postdoctoral fellow at Murdoch University (Australia) and New York University School of Medicine (USA), where she was appointed an Assistant Professor of Neurology in 2014. She returned back to Australia in 2018 to become a group leader at the Brain & Mind Centre at the University of Sydney after receiving the Bluesand Research Fellowship in Alzheimer’s disease. Her team uses proteomics, neuropathology and cell culture approaches to identify the protein drivers of multiple neurodegenerative diseases with a key focus on Alzheimer’s disease and primary tauopathies. Her long-term goal is to determine the disease mechanisms that underlie these diseases and to use this information to identify new drug targets and biomarkers.