Alzheimer's Disease Researchers: John Q. Trojanowski, Mark A. Smith, George Perry, Ehud Gazit, L der Deecke, Heiko Braak Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dr. John Q. Trojanowski obtained his M.D./Ph.D. in 1976 from Tufts University in Boston. After a medicine internship at Mt. Auburn Hospital and Harvard Medical School, he began pathology/neuropathology training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (1977-1979), and completed training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1980 where he was appointed assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine on 1/1/1981, and rose to the rank of tenured full professor in 1990. Dr. Trojanowski held or currently holds major leadership positions at the University of Pennsylvania including: Director of a National Institute of Aging (NIA) Alzheimers Disease Center (1991-present), Principal Investigator of a NIA Program Project Grant on Alzheimers (AD) and Parkinsons (PD) disease (1990-2005), Director of Medical Pathology (1988-2002), Interim Director (2001-2002) and Director (2002-present) of the Institute on Aging, Co-Director (1992-present) of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Morris K. Udall Parkinsons Disease Research Center of Excellence (2007-present), the first William Maul MeaseyTruman G. Schnabel, Jr., M.D., Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (2003-present) and Co-director of the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Drug Discovery Program (2004-present). For
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