Professor Fiona Ducotterd

Professor Fiona Ducotterd is the Chief Scientific Officer of the Alzheimer’s Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute (UDDI).

Fiona is a neuroscientist, strategic alliance and business development expert with global drug discovery and development experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Prior to joining the UDDI, she worked with Merck, Sharp and Dohme, GSK, Eisai and Vertex in the UK, China, Japan and the USA, as well as being an external consultant/scientific advisor to a wealth of global biotechnology clients.

Fiona has a BSc in Molecular Biology from Edinburgh University and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. She has spent most of her career working on Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases and now, Fiona and her team are focused on making new medicines for patients and hope to accelerate the translational research path to making transformative medicines.