Rudolph Tanzi

Dr. Rudolph Tanzi serves as the Chairman of our Scientific Advisory Board. He brings immense experience and insight to our team. He is also the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He Chairs the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium.

Dr. Tanzi has been a pioneer in genetic studies of neurological disease since the 1980’s when he participated in the first study using genetic markers to find a disease gene (Huntington’s disease). Dr. Tanzi co-discovered the three familial early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) genes and several other neurological disease genes including that responsible for Wilson’s disease.