Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board

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Erik Roberson

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Erik Roberson, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist with a focus on age-related neurodegenerative diseases. The Roberson lab studies the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), with a focus on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of these disorders and identifying new therapeutic strategies. Focus areas include tau and its binding partners in neuronal dysfunction in AD, the mechanisms by which genetic risk factors drive AD, and how progranulin deficiency causes FTD.
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Rita Sattler

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Rita Sattler, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Translational Neuroscience and the David and Weezie Chair of Neurodegeneration Research at the Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI), Phoenix, AZ. Sattler is the director of the BNI Education Programs and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at BNI-ASU.
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Rosa Rademakers

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Rosa Rademakers is currently scientific director of the VIB-UA Center for Molecular Neurology and full professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Antwerp. Her research is focused on the molecular genetics analyses of neurodegenerative diseases, with a special interest in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Bruce Miller

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Bruce Miller, MD, holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he directs the Memory and Aging Center, a National Institutes of Health-sponsored Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
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Stephen J. Haggarty

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Stephen J. Haggarty, PhD, serves as a faculty member in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is the director of the Chemical Neurobiology Laboratory, co-director of the Precision Therapeutics Unit, as well as the scientific director of neurobiology for the Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics in the Department of Psychiatry.
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Li Gan

Kissick Family Foundation FTD Science Advisory Board Member
Li Gan, PhD, is the director of the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Burton P. and Judith B. Resnick Distinguished Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
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