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Executive Committee

Elizabeth Head, PhD

Professor, Vice Chair for Research, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Director, Experimental Pathology PhD Program

Claire Henchcliffe, MD, DPhil

Stanley van den Noort Professor and Chair, Neurology, School of Medicine

Parkinson's disease, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative neurology

Frank M. LaFerla, PhD

Director, UCI Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; Dean, UCI School of Biological Sciences

Alzheimer’s disease; animal models, inclusion body myositis (IBM); Lewy body dementia; pre-clinical drug development; stem cell biology

Edwin S. Monuki, MD, PhD

Chair, Pathology; Developmental & Cell Biology

Choroid plexus; stem cells; Alzheimer’s disease; cortical development.

Marcelo Wood, PhD

Professor, Neurobiology & Behavior

Epigenetics; Learning and memory.