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Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD

Dr. Rudolph Tanzi is the Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health, and Co-Director of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegeneration at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also serves as the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tanzi discovered numerous Alzheimer’s disease genes including the first three early-onset Alzheimer’s genes, as well as several other brain disease genes and directs the Alzheimer’s Genome Project™. He has also started numerous biotech companies to develop novel therapies for Alzheimer’s disease using human brain organoid models of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Tanzi has won the highest awards in his field, is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and has been named as one of the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers Global and was named to the TIME100 List of Most Influential People in the World. He has co-authored 750 research publications with over 175,000 citations and is a New York Times bestselling author of “Decoding Darkness” “Super Brain”, “Super Genes”, and “The Healing Self”. Dr. Tanzi has made numerous network TV appearances and hosted several TV shows on PBS.

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