Roberta Diaz Brinton

Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D. is Director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona, where she is Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology in the College of Medicine. Dr. Brinton is an internationally recognized leader in Alzheimer’s research and development of therapeutics to prevent, delay and treat the disease. Her research has been continuously funded by NIH from her pre-doctoral years to the present. Early and sustaining ADDF support enabled clinical development of the first regenerative therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease. Outcomes of her discovery and translational research have led to National Institute of Aging funded clinical trials. Dr. Brinton has published over 200 scientific articles, holds multiple patents and her research has appeared in over 100 global media outlets including in the New York Times, ABC, CBS and Science Friday. Dr. Brinton was awarded the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s 2017 Melvin R. Goodes Prize, Woman of the Year by the California State Senate, Science Educator of the Year by the Society for Neuroscience and Los Angeles Magazine Woman of the Year. She was also recognized as one of the Ten Best Minds by US News and World Report. For her decades of commitment to science education for inner city youth of Los Angeles, Dr. Brinton received the Presidential Citizens Medal.