
Country
Switzerland
Clinical neurologist, full professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and director of the Memory Center at Geneva University Hospital. Formerly scientific director at the National Alzheimer’s Centre Fatebenefratelli in Brescia, Italy, leads a team of about 35 scientists and clinicians. Author of over 750 scientific papers listed in PubMed on the use of biomarkers for earlier and more accurate diagnosis and prognosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Biomarker editor for Neurobiology of Aging and founding editorial board member of The Lancet Neurology. Has led national and international projects funded by the European Commission, IMI, IMI2, the Alzheimer’s Association, Italian Ministry of Health, Swiss National Science Foundation, and industry. Over the years, he has attracted over 35M euros in competitive research funds. Chairman of Alzheimer’s Imaging Consortium at International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in 2010 and 2011. Honorary member of the Austrian Neurological Society and of the French Society of Neurology, he has received the Investigator Award Winner of European Academy of Neurology in 2016.