Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D.

Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D., the Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School, has devoted his career to the study of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related basic biological questions. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Virginia School of Medicine. After an initial period of research training at the National Institutes of Health (NINDS), he completed a residency in neurology at the Harvard/Longwood Neurology Program and a four year fellowship in biochemistry and neuronal cell biology in the Department of Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School. In 1978, he founded an independent laboratory dedicated to applying biochemical and molecular techniques to the study of AD and related neurobiological issues.