 Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience), Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Tanzi has been investigating human neurodegenerative disease at the genetic and biochemical levels since 1980 when he participated in the pioneering study that led to location of the Huntington disease gene, the first disease to be found solely by genetic linkage analysis. Dr. Tanzi is a world-renowned leader in studies of Alzheimer's disease genetics. He has identified and characterized several different AD genes, including the first Alzheimer's disease gene, the beta-amyloid protein precursor (APP). |
