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Top Neuroscience Researchers at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine for 2026
Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have been active across a wide stretch of neuroscience-adjacent work, from brain health and memory to mental health, vision, and health services research. The recent output sampled here shows how the institution’s expertise connects clinical questions with population-level approaches.
Below, you’ll find a closer look at the scholars contributing most consistently over the past year, along with the subfields that surfaced most often in their recent work. It’s a useful snapshot of how neuroscience-related research is being shaped in practice.
Featured Researchers
Nicholas Mays
Nicholas Mays focused on public attitudes to xenotransplantation, drawing on general health professions, economics and econometrics, and education themes in his recent work.
Activity over the last year: 2 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Nicholas Magill
Nicholas Magill’s recent publications center on insomnia treatment, accelerated forgetting, and neuroimaging in presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease, with clear links to clinical psychology and psychiatry.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Efficacy of digital cognitive behavioral therapy for treating insomnia in adults aged 65 and older: a secondary analysis using individual participant data from three randomized controlled trials (Apr 2025)
- Accelerated forgetting in presymptomatic Alzheimer’s: mediation by prefrontal cortical degeneration (Jan 2025)
- Neuroimaging correlates and prognostic utility of accelerated long‐term forgetting in presymptomatic autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (Dec 2025)
Islay Mactaggart
Islay Mactaggart’s recent work examines blindness, vision impairment, and barriers to cataract surgery through an epidemiological and mental health lens.
Activity over the last year: 2 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Barriers to cataract surgeries as perceived by visually impaired 50 years and older cataract blind participants of Nepal survey for rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (Jun 2025)
- Prevalence and causes of blindness and vision impairment among people 50 years and older in Nepal: A national Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness survey (Feb 2025)
Matthew J. Burton
Matthew J. Burton contributed to studies on blindness, vision impairment, and cataract surgery barriers in Nepal, with recent work anchored in ophthalmology and epidemiology.
Activity over the last year: 2 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Barriers to cataract surgeries as perceived by visually impaired 50 years and older cataract blind participants of Nepal survey for rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (Jun 2025)
- Prevalence and causes of blindness and vision impairment among people 50 years and older in Nepal: A national Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness survey (Feb 2025)
Christopher T. Rentsch
Christopher T. Rentsch has been exploring alcohol use, metabolic health, and shared neural associations, including work on GLP-1 receptor agonists and brain health.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, but not dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, reduce alcohol intake (Mar 2025)
- Alcohol use disorder and body mass index show genetic pleiotropy and shared neural associations (Mar 2025)
- Disentangling the relationship between glucose, insulin and brain health: A UK Biobank study (Dec 2025)
Jennifer M. Nicholas
Jennifer M. Nicholas recently published on simvastatin in multiple sclerosis and the effects of night and shift work on late-life brain health, spanning psychiatry, physiology, and imaging.
Activity over the last year: 3 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Mustafa Al‐Haboubi
Mustafa Al-Haboubi’s recent publications on xenotransplantation place his work at the intersection of applied microbiology, periodontics, and public health.
Activity over the last year: 2 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Ian McCormick
Ian McCormick’s recent work addresses blindness and vision impairment in Qatar, with supporting interests in epidemiology, sociology, and literary theory.
Activity over the last year: 2 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
What London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Neuroscience Community Is Working On
The most common subfields point to a community working at the intersection of psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, and oncology, with additional activity in general health professions and economics and econometrics. Taken together, the recent work suggests a strong emphasis on understanding brain health and mental wellbeing alongside population studies, clinical outcomes, and health-service questions. That mix reflects a research environment where neuroscience-related questions are often approached through both patient-centered clinical studies and broader public-health perspectives.- Psychiatry and Mental health - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Epidemiology - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Oncology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- General Health Professions - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
- Economics and Econometrics - seen across 1 of the featured researchers
Explore the profiles below to see how these researchers are building evidence across brain health, mental health, and related clinical areas. If you’re managing your own manuscripts, Resub can also help streamline citation discovery, formatting, and submission preparation so you can spend more time on the research itself.
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