Conceição Bettencourt is a researcher who works in the field of neuro-epigenetics and proposed a role for DNA methylation of oligodendrocytes in early Alzheimer's disease. She studies the involvement of disrupted molecular pathways and DNA methylation in neurodegenerative diseases using human post-mortem brain tissue. The goal is to obtain a deeper understanding of disrupted molecular pathways underlying neurodegenerative diseases, such as frontotemporal dementia, as well as biological aging. She is Professorial Research Fellow of the Alzheimer's Research UK, at UCL, and co-leads the Genetics and Omics Working Group of the international Deep Dementia Phenotyping (DEMON) network. Some of her most recent work integrates Artificial Intelligence for dementia genetics and omics.
Education and career Bettencourt studied Biology and Human Genetics at the University of the Azores, where she conducted her PhD on "Machado-Joseph disease: from genetic variability to clinical heterogeneity". She then trained as a postdoc in Spain and the Netherlands. She is now a Professorial Research Fellow at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in London, UK.
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