Zane Jaunmuktane, MD, FRCPath

Dr Zane Jaunmuktane is a Consultant Neuropathologist and academic investigator at University College London, with appointments at the Queen Square Brain Bank and the Reta Lila Weston Institute. Her research focuses on the causes of phenotypic diversity and heterogeneous disease progression in Lewy body disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, with particular emphasis on mechanisms underlying region- and cell-type-specific vulnerability. She leads and co-leads large-scale programmes integrating quantitative digital pathology, spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, lipidomics and AI-driven disease modelling to characterise misfolded protein pathology and relate molecular changes to clinical phenotype. Alongside an active diagnostic and research practice, she contributes to building open, multimodal research platforms, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration, and training the next generation of neuropathologists and computational neuroscientists.