Staff Profile
Dr Marzena Kurzawa-Akanbi
Senior Research Associate
- Email: marzena.kurzawa2@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 241 8818
- Address: Biosciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
International Centre for Life
Central Parkway
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3BZ
Publications
- Outeiro TF, Koss DJ, Erskine D, Walker L, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Burn DJ, Donaghy P, Morris CM, Taylor JP, Thomas AJ, Attems J, McKeith IG. Dementia with Lewy bodies: an update and outlook. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2019, 14, 5.
- Kolli S, Bojic S, Ghareeb AE, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Figueiredo FC, Lako M. The Role of Nerve Growth Factor in Maintaining Proliferative Capacity, Colony‐Forming Efficiency, and the Limbal Stem Cell Phenotype. Stem Cells 2019, 37(1).
- Jonikas M, Madill M, Mathy A, Zekoll T, Zois CE, Wigfield S, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Browne C, Sims D, Chinnery PF, Cowley SA, Tofaris GK. Stem cell modeling of mitochondrial parkinsonism reveals key functions of OPA1. Annals of Neurology 2018, 83(5), 915-925.
- Keogh MJ, Wei W, Wilson I, Coxhead J, Ryan S, Rollinson S, Griffin H, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Santibariez-Koref M, Talbot K, Turner MR, McKenzie CA, Troakes C, Attems J, Smith C, Al Sarraj S, Morris CM, Ansorge O, Pickering-Brown S, Ironside JW, Chinnery PF. Genetic compendium of 1511 human brains available through the UK Medical Research Council Brain Banks Network Resource. Genome Reseach 2017, 27(1), 165-173.
- Wei W, Keogh MJ, Wilson I, Coxhead J, Ryan S, Rollinson S, Griffin H, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Santibanez-Koref M, Talbot K, Turner MR, McKenzie CA, Troakes C, Attems J, Smith C, Al Sarraj S, Morris CM, Ansorge O, Pickering-Brown S, Ironside JW, Chinnery PF. Mitochondrial DNA point mutations and relative copy number in 1363 disease and control human brains. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2017, 5, 17.
- Keogh MJ, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Griffin H, Douroudis K, Ayers KL, Hussein RI, Hudson G, Pyle A, Cordell HJ, Attems J, McKeith IG, O'Brien JT, Burn DJ, Morris CM, Thomas AJ, Chinnery PF. Exome sequencing in dementia with Lewy bodies. Translational Psychiatry 2016, 6, e728.
- Pyle A, Anugrha H, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Yarnall A, Burn D, Hudson G. Reduced mitochondrial DNA copy number is a biomarker of Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging 2016, 38, 216.e7–216.e10.
- Pyle A, Lowes H, Brennan R, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Yarnall A, Burn D, Hudson G. Reduced Mitochondrial DNA Is Not a Biomarker of Depression in Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders 2016, 31(12), 1923-1924.
- Coxhead J, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Hussain R, Pyle A, Chinnery P, Hudson G. Somatic mtDNA variation is an important component of Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging 2016, 38, 217.e1-217.e6.
- Gorman GS, Pfeffer G, Griffin H, Blakely EL, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Gabriel J, Sitarz K, Roberts M, Schoser B, Pyle A, Schaefer AM, McFarland R, Turnbull DM, Horvath R, Chinnery PF, Taylor RW. Clonal Expansion of Secondary Mitochondrial DNA Deletions Associated With Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 28. JAMA Neurology 2015, 72(1), 106-111.
- Pyle A, Brennan R, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Yarnall A, Thouin A, Mollenhauer B, Burn D, Chinnery PF, Hudson G. Reduced CSF mitochondrial DNA is a biomarker for early-stage Parkinson's disease. Annals of Neurology 2015, 78(6), 1000-1004.
- Chiasserini D, Paciotti S, Eusebi P, Persichetti E, Tasegian A, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Chinnery PF, Morris CM, Calabresi P, Parnetti L, Beccari T. Selective loss of glucocerebrosidase activity in sporadic Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Molecular Neurodegeneration 2015, 10(1), 1-13.
- Pfeffer G, Gorman GS, Griffin H, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Blakely EL, Wilson I, Sitarz K, Moore D, Murphy JL, Alston CL, Pyle A, Coxhead J, Payne B, Gorrie GH, Longman C, Hadjivassiliou M, McConville J, Dick D, Imam I, Hilton D, Norwood F, Baker MR, Jaiser SR, Yu-Wai-Man P, Farrell M, McCarthy A, Lynch T, McFarland R, Schaefer AM, Turnbull DM, Horvath R, Taylor RW, Chinnery PF. Mutations in the SPG7 gene cause chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia through disordered mitochondrial DNA maintenance. Brain 2014, 137(5), 1323-1336.
- Nalls MA, Duran R, Lopez G, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, McKeith IG, Chinnery PF, Morris CM, Theuns J, Crosiers D, Cras P, Engelborghs S, DeDeyn PP, Van Broeckhoven C, Mann DM, Snowden J, Pickering-Brown S, Halliwell N, Davidson Y, Gibbons L, Harris J, Sheerin UM, Bras J, Hardy J, Clark L, Marder K, Honig LS, Berg D, Maetzler W, Brockmann K, Gasser T, Novellino F, Quattrone A, Annesi G, De Marco EV, Rogaeva E, Masellis M, Black SE, Bilbao JM, Foroud T, Ghetti B, Nichols WC, Pankratz N, Halliday G, Lesage S, Klebe S, Durr A, Duyckaerts C, Brice A, Giasson BI, Trojanowski JQ, Hurtig HI, Tayebi N, Landazabal C, Knight MA, Keller M, Singleton AB, Wolfsberg TG, Sidransky E. A Multicenter Study of Glucocerebrosidase Mutations in Dementia With Lewy Bodies. JAMA Neurology 2013, 70(6), 727-735.
- Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Hanson PS, Blain PG, Lett DJ, McKeith IG, Chinnery PF, Morris CM. Glucocerebrosidase Mutations alter the endoplasmic reticulum and lysosomes in Lewy body disease. Journal of Neurochemistry 2012, 123(2), 298-309.
- Keane PC, Kurzawa M, Blain PG, Morris CM. Mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease. Parkinson's Disease 2011, 2011, 716871.
- Tonska K, Kurzawa M, Ambroziak AM, Korwin-Rujna M, Szaflik JP, Grabowska E, Szaflik J, Bartnik E. A family with 3460G>A and 11778G>A mutations and haplogroup analysis of Polish Leber hereditary optic neuropathy patients. Mitochondrion 2008, 8(5-6), 383-388.