Darras Bill

Physician

  • Physician at the Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston.
  • Deputy Chief Neurologist.
  • Director of the Department of Clinical Neurology, Children's Hospital Boston.
  • Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
  • Director of the Neuromuscular Center and the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Program.
  • Research interests: molecular genetics, diagnosis and therapeutic management of pediatric neuromuscular diseases.
  • Email: basil.darras@childrens.harvard.edu

Philip Gold

Researcher

  • One of the world's leading depression researchers.
  • Head of Neuroendocrine Research.
  • Head of the Department of Neuroendocrinology.
  • Principal Investigator in the Intra-scientific Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health.
  • He was trained in psychoanalytic psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
  • Head of a laboratory with over 30 people trained in neuroscience, molecular biology, endocrinology, neurology and psychiatry.
  • He has written over 400 scientific articles that have been cited in over 65,000 publications, including 16 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
  • Member of the Library of Congress Academic Council, he participated in the MacArthur Foundation Medical Network.
  • Honorary Doctorate from the Medical School of the University of Athens.
  • Distinguished Graduate of Duke University School of Medicine. Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of Great Britain.
  • Curt Richter Award (Vienna, Austria), Fish Memorial Award and Lecture (Brown University Medical School), Alan Walters Memorial Award (University of Toronto Medical School).

Rudolph E. Tanzi

Professor

  • Neuroscientist/Geneticist.
  • Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
  • Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • Director of Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • Co-Director, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
  • Research interests: Alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta protein, amyloid precursor protein, beta and gamma secretase, antimicrobial peptides, genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease, microglial activation, human brain organoid models of disease, neuroinflammation, and neurogenesis
  • Email: tanzi@helix.mgh.harvard.edu