Allan Levey
Betty Gage Holland Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, Director, Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Emory University (Festival Underwriter)
Allan Levey is the Goizueta Foundation Endowed Chair for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Betty Gage Holland Chair, and chair of the Department of Neurology at Emory University, where h is also executive associate dean for research at the School of Medicine and director of the Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. He is a neurologist and neuroscientist internationally recognized for his work in neurodegenerative disease with more than 400 research publications. Levey’s work in Alzheimer’s Disease and related neurodegenerative disorders has contributed to understanding mechanisms involved in these conditions and translation to new therapeutic strategies and biomarkers. He has received numerous awards and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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If we are lucky enough to reach age 85, we face a 25 percent chance of dementia, and the odds worsen with time. Some 50 million people worldwide were living with dementia in 2...