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Tora Bonnevie

Tora Bonnevie is a Norwegian physician-neuroscientist and associate professor at NTNU in Trondheim who studies memory, space, and time in the human brain, including early Alzheimer's disease.

Virginia M.-Y. Lee

Virginia M.-Y. Lee, also known as Virginia Man-Yee Lee, is an American neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania who identified the misfolded proteins behind Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS.

Walter A. Rocca

Walter A. Rocca is an Italian-born American neurologist and epidemiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on dementia, Parkinson's disease, and oophorectomy.

Wiesje M. van der Flier

Wiesje M. van der Flier (born 1975) is a Dutch neuropsychologist who led the Alzheimer Center Amsterdam and became executive director of Alzheimer Nederland in 2025.

William C. Mobley

William C. Mobley is an American neurologist and neuroscientist, Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, known for the signaling endosome hypothesis and showing that the APP gene drives Alzheimer disease in Down syndrome.

William J. Jagust

William J. Jagust is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who studies brain aging and dementia with PET and MRI imaging.

Yaakov Stern

Yaakov Stern is an American neuropsychologist and Florence Irving Professor at Columbia University, known for formulating the cognitive reserve hypothesis explaining differing Alzheimer's disease outcomes.

Yadong Huang

Yadong Huang (黄亚东) is a neuroscientist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF whose lab showed that stressed neurons cleave apoE4, Alzheimer's strongest genetic risk factor, into toxic fragments.

Yakeel Quiroz

Yakeel T. Quiroz is a Colombian-born clinical neuropsychologist and neuroimaging researcher who studies Alzheimer's disease, known for the Colombian PSEN1 E280A kindred and protective variants like APOE3 Christchurch.

Yasuo Ihara

Yasuo Ihara (井原 康夫) was a Japanese neuropathologist who identified tau and ubiquitin in Alzheimer's tangles, clarified γ-secretase cleavage, and taught at Doshisha University until his death in 2023.