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Michael W. Weiner

Michael W. Weiner is a UCSF physician-scientist who leads the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the largest longitudinal biomarker study of Alzheimer's disease, launched in 2004.

Michel Goedert

Michel Goedert, born 1954 in Luxembourg, is a neuroscientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who identified tau and alpha-synuclein as the filament proteins of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Ottavio Arancio

Ottavio Arancio is an Italian-born American physician-scientist and cellular neurobiologist, professor at Columbia University's Taub Institute, known for pioneering study of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.

Paul Aisen

Paul S. Aisen is a neurologist and Alzheimer's disease researcher who directs the USC Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute and the Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Consortium, after leading the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study.

Paul M. Thompson

Paul M. Thompson is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California who co-founded the ENIGMA Consortium, a worldwide alliance of brain-imaging scientists studying brain diseases.

Peter T. Lansbury

Peter T. Lansbury, also known as Peter Lansbury, is an American chemist turned neurodegeneration researcher, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and founder of Link Medicine.

Philip C. Wong

Philip C. Wong is a professor of pathology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine whose laboratory studies TDP-43 in Alzheimer's disease and ALS-FTD, including a 2024 presymptomatic fluid biomarker.

Philip Scheltens

Philip Scheltens is a Dutch neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher, emeritus professor at Amsterdam UMC, founder of its Alzheimer Center, and now head of the Dementia Fund at EQT Life Sciences.

Rachelle S. Doody

Rachelle S. Doody is a neurologist and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Baylor College of Medicine who led phase 3 trials of Alzheimer's drugs including solanezumab and gantenerumab.

Ralph A. Nixon

Ralph A. Nixon is an American physician-scientist studying Alzheimer's disease, professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and director of the Center for Dementia Research since 1997.

Randall John Bateman

Randall J. Bateman is an American neurologist at Washington University in St. Louis who pioneered Alzheimer's blood tests and led the first Alzheimer's prevention trial.

Reisa Sperling

Reisa A. Sperling is an American neurologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who chaired the 2011 guidelines defining preclinical Alzheimer's disease and led the A4 Study.

Richard Mayeux

Richard Mayeux is an American neurologist and genetic epidemiologist at Columbia University who studies the epidemiology and genetics of Alzheimer's disease, leading the WHICAP cohort since 1989.

Rik Ossenkoppele

Rik Ossenkoppele is a Dutch neuroscientist and associate professor at Amsterdam UMC who studies Alzheimer's disease with tau and amyloid PET imaging, leading the ERC-funded TAU-NOW project.

Robert Howard (psychiatrist)

Robert Howard, also published as Robert J. Howard, is an old-age psychiatrist, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University College London since 2015, previously at King's College London.

Robert Katzman

Robert Katzman (1925–2008) was an American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher at UCSD, best known for his 1976 editorial redefining senile dementia as a disease, not normal aging.

Robert Vassar

Robert Vassar is a neuroscientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who co-discovered BACE1, the β-secretase enzyme initiating β-amyloid production in Alzheimer's disease, in 1999.

Ronald C. Petersen

Ronald C. Petersen is an American neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, best known for establishing mild cognitive impairment as a recognized diagnostic category.

Rudolph Tanzi

Rudolph Tanzi, born 1958, is an American neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for discovering Alzheimer's genes like APP and presenilins and for the Alzheimer's Genome Project.

Sam Gandy

Sam Gandy, or Samuel E. Gandy, is an American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher who led the 1989 discovery of the first drugs that could lower amyloid formation in the brain.

Samuel Cohen (biophysical chemist)

Samuel I. A. Cohen is a Cambridge-trained biophysical chemist who established how toxic amyloid-β oligomers arise during aggregation in Alzheimer's disease, and who co-founded Wren Therapeutics and Ride Therapeutics.

Sangram S. Sisodia

Sangram S. Sisodia is a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago who studies the cell biology of Alzheimer's disease, including amyloid precursor protein and presenilins.

Sterling C. Johnson

Sterling C. Johnson is an American clinical neuropsychologist and Alzheimer's researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for early detection work and validating the plasma p-tau217 blood test.

Steven T. DeKosky

Steven T. DeKosky is an American neurologist and Alzheimer's disease researcher at the University of Florida, known for synaptic-loss studies and amyloid PET imaging trials.

Sudha Seshadri

Sudha Seshadri is a behavioral neurologist and founding director of the Glenn Biggs Institute at UT Health San Antonio, and a senior investigator at the Framingham Heart Study.

Suzanne M. de la Monte

Suzanne M. de la Monte is an American neuropathologist and physician-scientist at Brown University and the Providence VA Medical Center, known for coining "Type 3 diabetes" in Alzheimer's research.

Takaomi C. Saido

Takaomi C. Saido (西道 隆臣) is a Japanese pharmacologist and neuroscientist who has led a team at RIKEN since 1997, known for identifying neprilysin as the principal amyloid-β-degrading enzyme in the brain.

Takeshi Iwatsubo

Takeshi Iwatsubo (岩坪 威) is a Japanese neurologist and neuroscientist known for showing that amyloid-β 42 is the first amyloid species deposited in Alzheimer's disease brains.

Todd E. Golde

Todd E. Golde, also written Todd Golde, is an American neuroscientist and physician-scientist who studies Alzheimer's disease and directs the Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease.

Tony Wyss-Coray

Tony Wyss-Coray is a Stanford neuroscientist who showed that blood-borne factors from young organisms can rejuvenate old brains, and co-founded the biotechnology company Alkahest in 2014.