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RSS FeedThe 15 Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members have been appointed. Their names and a short biography have been listed below. The SAB is led by;
- Thomas Gasser (Chair)
- Martin Rossor (Vice-Chair)
Scientific Advisory Board members
Myrra Vernooij-Dassen
1 November 2010
Biography: Prof. Myrra Vernooij-Dassen (PhD) is principal investigator in the Nijmegen Centre for Evidence Based Practice and director of Nijmegen Alzheimer Centre. She has a chair on psychosocial aspects of care for frail...[more]
Jesús Avila
15 April 2010
Biography: Jesús Avila is a scientist whose interests have led him into many branches of science. He first studied organic and physical chemistry at the University of Madrid, while maintaining a side interest in molecular...[more]
Stefano F. Cappa
15 April 2010
Biography: Stefano F. Cappa received his M.D. at the University of Milano, in which he completed his neurology training. He has held assistant professor and associate professor positions in Neurology and Neurological...[more]
Henry Brodaty
15 April 2010
Biography: Henry Brodaty is the Professor of Ageing and Mental Health (since 1990) and Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre (since 2006) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia and...[more]
Bart De Strooper
15 April 2010
Biography: Bart De Strooper is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and VIB (Leuven, Belgium). He is scientific director of the VIB Department of Molecular and Developmental...[more]
Bruno Dubois
15 April 2010
Biography: Bruno Dubois is currently Professor of Neurology at the Neurological Institute of the Salpétrière University Hospital at Paris, University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6. He is Director of the Behavioural Neurology...[more]
Laura Fratiglioni
15 April 2010
Biography: Laura Fratiglioni, currently employed as professor at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, is the Director of the Aging Research Center (ARC), KI. She is a medical doctor, specialised both in Neurology and...[more]
John Hardy
15 April 2010
Biography: Prof John Hardy is a geneticist and molecular biologist whose research interests focus on neurological disease. Dr. Hardy received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree from the University of Leeds, UK (1976) and his Ph.D. from...[more]
Thomas Gasser
15 April 2010
SAB Chair: Biography: Thomas Gasser is a Professor of Neurology and Director of the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is...[more]
Leszek Kaczmarek
15 April 2010
Biography: Leszek Kaczmarek, born in 1957, and professor of neurobiology, is head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) since 1996. He...[more]
Martin Knapp
15 April 2010
Biography Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director of LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics. He is also Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for the Economics of...[more]
Jesús de Pedro Cuesta
15 April 2010
Biography: Specialist in Clinical Neurology and Preventive Medicine & Public Health, J. de Pedro Cuesta holds Spanish and Swedish citizenship and a Spanish and Swedish board-certificates in neurology. He was formally...[more]
Martin Neil Rossor
15 April 2010
SAB Vice-Chair: Biography: Professor Rossor trained in Neurology at the National Hospital, Queen Square and undertook research into the neurochemistry of degenerative disease at the MRC neurochemical pharmacology unit in...[more]
Philip Scheltens
15 April 2010
Biography: Dr Philip Scheltens studied at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, gaining his MD in 1984, and PhD (magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer's disease) in 1993. Clinical residencies in neurosurgery at the...[more]
Bengt Winblad
15 April 2010
Biography: Professor Bengt Winblad, MD, PhD has been involved in the field of dementia research for many years. He became MD 1971 and took his PhD in 1975 at the University of Umeå, Sweden, where he became a Docent in 1977...[more]
