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Staff Profile

Debbie Lett

NBTR Manager

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1231
  • Personal Website:
  • Address: Â鶹´«Ã½ Brain Tissue Resource
    Campus for Ageing and Vitality,
    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
    NE4 5PL
Background

I am the manager of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Brain Tissue Resource which is a large research tissue bank of post mortem human brain tissue based within the University.  I have been involved in shaping the system of brain donation for research in Â鶹´«Ã½ since its earliest days.  In addition to managing the multidisciplinary team which handles all aspects of the assessment, collection, donation , storage and distribution of samples, I am also the Person Designated under the University HTA licence for the Campus for Ageing and Vitality. 

I am proud to be involved in providing this resource for researchers into dementia and neurodegenerative disorders and also to  be able to  present this to  members of the public as  a way they  too can help research.

I am also an active member of an NHS ethics committee. 

Publications

  • Articles

    • Miltenberger-Miltenyi G, Jones A, Tetlow AM, Conceicao VA, Crary JF, Ditzel RM, Farrell K, Nandakumar R, Barton B, Karp BI, Kirby A, Lett DJ, Mente K, Morgello S, Simon DK, Walker RH. . Movement Disorders 2023, 38(8), 1535-1541.
    • Ditzel RM, Walker RH, Nirenberg MJ, Tetlow AM, Farrell K, Lind-Watson KJ, Thorn EL, Dangoor DK, Gordon R, De Sanctis C, Barton B, Karp BI, Kirby A, Lett DJ, Mente K, Simon DK, Velayos-Baeza A, Miltenberger-Miltenyi G, Humphrey J, Crary JF. . Movement Disorders 2023, 38(12), 2163-2172.
    • Thomas AJ, Hamilton CA, Heslegrave A, Barker S, Durcan R, Lawley S, Barnett NA, Lett D, Firbank M, Roberts G, Taylor JP, Donaghy PC, Zetterberg H, O'Brien JT. . Movement Disorders 2022, 37(7), 1495-1504.
    • Thomas AJ, Mahin-Babaei F, Saidi M, Lett D, Taylor JP, Walker L, Attems J. . Alzheimer's Research and Therapy 2018, 10(1), 27.
    • Thomas AJ, Attems J, Colloby SJ, O'Brien JT, Mckeith I, Walker R, Lee L, Burn D, Lett DJ, Walker Z. . Neurology 2017, 88(3), 276-283.
    • Elder GJ, Colloby SJ, Lett DJ, O'Brien JT, Anderson KN, Burn DJ, McKeith IG, Taylor JP. . International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2016, 31(7), 765-770.
    • Khundakar AA, Hanson PS, Erskine D, Lax NZ, Roscamp J, Karyka E, Tsefou E, Singh P, Cockell SJ, Gribben A, Ramsay L, Blain PJ, Mosimann UP, Lett DJ, Elstner M, Turnbull DM, Xiang CC, Brownstein MJ, O'Brien JT, Taylor JP, Attems J, Thomas AJ, McKeith IG, Morris CM. . Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2016, 4, 66.
    • Tiraboschi P, Attems J, Thomas A, Brown A, Jaros E, Lett DJ, Ossola M, Perry RH, Ramsay L, Walker L, McKeith IG. . Neurology 2015, 84(5), 496-499.
    • Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Hanson PS, Blain PG, Lett DJ, McKeith IG, Chinnery PF, Morris CM. . Journal of Neurochemistry 2012, 123(2), 298-309.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

    • Walker L, Thomas A, Lett DJ, McAleese KE, Johnson M, Attems J. . In: 117th meeting of the British Neuropathological Society. 2016, London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

  • Letters

    • Thomas AJ, Attems J, Colloby SJ, O'Brien JT, McKeith I, Walker R, Lee L, Burn D, Lett DJ, Walker Z. . Neurology 2017, 89(7), 751-751.
    • Robinson AC, Palmer L, Love S, Hamard M, Esiri M, Ansorge O, Lett D, Attems J, Morris C, Troakes C, Selvackadunco S, King A, Al-Sarraj S, Mann DMA. . Acta Neuropathologica 2016, 132(5), 753-755.