Robert Rissman

Robert Rissman, PhD, is a Professor of Neurosciences at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), a Research Biologist at VA San Diego, Founding Director of UCSD’s Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS) Biomarker Core, as well as, Founding Director of the Biomarker Core for University of Southern California (USC) Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI) in San Diego. He is also the Director of UCSD’s Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Neuropathology and Biomarker Cores and Brain Bank and the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium (ACTC). Dr. Rissman received his Bachelor of Science degree at UC San Diego, his PhD from Drexel University, and completed postdoctoral studies at UC Irvine and The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He has been a contributing author to over one hundred and fifty publications in the field of neurosciences. Dr. Rissman’s current area of research is focused on novel biomarker discovery and experimental neuropathology in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and preclinical animal models. The research conducted in his VA SD lab focuses on understanding how central corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neuromodulatory pathways interplay with peripheral stress signaling and contribute to neuronal vulnerability and AD neuropathology using in vivo pharmacology in transgenic animal models and human biospecimens.