Darren J Moore, PhD

Darren J. Moore, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurodegenerative Research at the Brain Mind Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Dr. Moore received his PhD in Molecular Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge in 2001 in the laboratory of Piers C. Emson, PhD, and conducted post-doctoral research in the Department of Neurology and Morris K. Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Moore joined the faculty of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins in 2005 as an Instructor and was appointed Assistant Professor in 2006. Dr. Moore later joined the faculty at EPFL in 2008. His laboratory is interested in understanding the cell biology and pathophysiology of gene products associated with familial Parkinson’s disease, including the LRRK2 and parkin proteins, and the development of novel genetic mouse models of neurological disease.