Philip Haydon

Dr. Haydon is the Annetta and Gustav Grisard Professor and Chair in the Department of Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is an internationally recognized leader in the study of neuron-glial interactions in disease. He has received several prestigious awards, including a McKnight Investigator Award and the Jacob Javits Award from the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Haydon was a founder and partner in Prairie Technologies, a privately-held company that developed state-of-the-art microscopy tools including two-photon microscopes for use in neurosciences. Prairie Technologies was subsequently acquired by Bruker Instruments. He was also co-founder and president of GliaCure, Inc., which has developed a small molecule modulator of the P2Y6R as a potential therapeutic for Alzheimer’s disease and asthma. Dr. Haydon oversaw preclinical and clinical development of the compounds and led the company through successful rounds of fundraising.