Seminar | Bart De Strooper | “Early micro- and astrogliosis in Alzheimer’s Disease” |

Seminar 01.06.2023 15h A0.02

Early micro- and astrogliosis in Alzheimer’s Disease | Prof. Bart De Strooper | VIB-KU Leuven Center, Leuven, Belgium

Prof Bart De Strooper is a world-renowned Alzheimer’s disease researcher. He divides his time between Leuven and London: as group leader at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research in Belgium and director of the UK Dementia Research Institute. He was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship in 2020, and has received several awards including the Potamkin prize, the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research, Alois Alzheimer’s prize, the highly prestigious Brain Prize 2018 and Commander in the Order of Leopold. In 2022 he was one of only ten international researchers elected to the US National Academy of Medicine.