Dr Sasha Philbert is an Alzheimer’s Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Manchester with a background in neuroscience. He earned his MSc in Neuroscience (with specialisation in neurodegeneration) from King’s College London and his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Manchester. His research interests centre around sodium and energy metabolism in vascular cognitive impairment, with the aim of improving diagnosis. To achieve this, he employs MRI methods, particularly sodium MRI, and mass spectrometry-based methods to measure molecular biomarkers.

Website: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/sasha.philbert

Orchid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0650-5344

Human dementia with Lewy bodies brain shows widespread urea elevations - Parkinsonism & Related Disorders

Extensive multiregional urea elevations in a case-control study of vascular dementia point toward a novel shared mechanism of disease amongst the age-related dementias - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience