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Heiko Braak
Heiko Braak (born 1937) is a German neuroanatomist, professor at the University of Ulm, whose Braak stages of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are used worldwide.
Huaxi Xu
Huaxi Xu (徐华西) was a neuroscientist who studied the cell biology of Alzheimer's disease, known for work on APP processing and for identifying TREM2 as a receptor for β-amyloid.
Hui Zheng
Hui Zheng is a neuroscientist and mouse geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, known for pioneering mouse models of APP and presenilins in Alzheimer's disease.
Huntington Potter
Huntington Potter is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurology at the University of Colorado who researches Alzheimer's disease, its link to Down syndrome, and GM-CSF treatment trials.
Ian G. McKeith
Ian G. McKeith, also known as Ian McKeith, is a British old-age psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University who established dementia with Lewy bodies as a distinct, diagnosable dementia.
Ikuo Nishimoto
Ikuo Nishimoto (西本 征央, 1956–2003) was a Japanese neurology researcher and pharmacology professor at Keio University whose work on Alzheimer's disease led to the discovery of Humanin.
Isidró Ferrer
Isidre Ferrer is a Spanish neuropathologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Barcelona who studies tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease and founded the Bellvitge brain bank.
Jeffrey L. Cummings
Jeffrey L. Cummings is an American neurologist and Alzheimer's disease researcher who directs the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
John P. Blass
John P. Blass (1937–2023) was an Austrian-born American physician and neurological researcher at the Burke Neurological Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine, known for linking thiamine-dependent enzyme deficits to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.
John T. O’Brien
John T. O'Brien is a British psychiatrist and dementia researcher, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, known for work on Lewy body dementia.
Jürgen Götz
Jürgen Götz is a neuroscientist at the University of Queensland who created the first tau mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and developed scanning ultrasound therapy.
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow is a Swedish physician and clinical neurochemist, professor at the University of Gothenburg, known for establishing the protein markers in cerebrospinal fluid and blood used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Kalipada Pahan
Kalipada Pahan, published as K. Pahan, is a neuroscientist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago known for research on statins in the brain and on alpha-synuclein spreading in Parkinson's disease.
Karen Duff
Karen Duff is a neuroscientist studying Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies who directs the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London and created key transgenic mouse models.
Kathy L. Newell
Kathy L. Newell, MD, is a neuropathologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine who studies Alzheimer's disease, co-authored tau filament structures, and leads a $4.8 million TDP-43 research grant.
Kenneth L. Davis
Kenneth L. Davis is an American psychiatrist who created the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale and led the Mount Sinai Health System as CEO from 2003 to 2023.
Keqiang Ye
Keqiang Ye (叶克强) is a Chinese neuroscientist who discovered the AEP enzyme driving Alzheimer's pathology and developed the α-synuclein PET tracer F0502B; he is dean at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology.
Khalid Iqbal
Khalid Iqbal is a neurochemist, known as the "father of tau," who discovered that Alzheimer's paired helical filaments are made of abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau protein.
Konrad Beyreuther
Konrad Beyreuther, born 1941, is a German molecular biologist known for identifying the amyloid protein of Alzheimer's plaques and for characterizing the amyloid precursor protein at Heidelberg.
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe is an American psychiatrist and epidemiologist who studies cognitive aging and dementia at UCSF and the San Francisco VA, estimating 30%–40% of dementia risk may be preventable.
Lars Bertram
Lars Bertram is a German physician-scientist who studies Alzheimer's disease genetics, known for the AlzGene database and a professor of genome analytics at the University of Lübeck.
Lary C. Walker
Lary C. Walker is a neuroscientist and neuropathologist at Emory University in Atlanta known for establishing that amyloid-beta, the protein of Alzheimer's plaques, spreads by prion-like seeding.
Li Gan
Li Gan is a neuroscientist directing the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine since 2018, known for work on tau acetylation.
Lisa Mosconi
Lisa Mosconi is an Italian-born neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine who directs its Alzheimer's Prevention Program and studies women's brain health and menopause through brain imaging.
Mark P. Mattson
Mark P. Mattson is an American neuroscientist known for research on brain aging and intermittent fasting, and Chief of the National Institute on Aging's Laboratory of Neurosciences from 2000 to 2019.
Martin Prince
Martin J. Prince is a psychiatrist and psychiatric epidemiologist, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at King's College London, coordinating the 10/66 Dementia Research Group since 1998.
Mathias Jucker
Mathias Jucker is a neuroscientist who studies brain aging and Alzheimer's disease, known for work showing that misfolded amyloid-β can seed its own aggregation like a prion.
Michael D. Greicius
Michael D. Greicius, also known as Michael Greicius, is a Stanford neurologist who studies Alzheimer's disease through brain imaging and genetics, and founded the Stanford Center for Memory Disorders.
Michael S. Wolfe
Michael S. Wolfe is an American medicinal chemist and neuroscientist known for discovering γ-secretase, the amyloid-producing enzyme in Alzheimer's disease, and teaches at the University of Kansas.
Michael T. Heneka
Michael T. Heneka is a German neurologist and clinician-scientist known for research on neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease, and director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine since 2022.