[S-07] シンポジウム07

[S-07-2] Parkinson Disease Pathogenesis and Disease Modification

Ted M. Dawson (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Dr. Ted Dawson is the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences and Director of Institute for Cell Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Dawson received his M.D. and Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Utah School of Medicine. He completed an internship in medicine at the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals and a neurology residency at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Next, he came to The Johns Hopkins where he completed a fellowship in neuroscience and senior clinical fellowship in movement disorders. Dr. Dawson’s honors include the Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award, the Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar Award, and the Santiago Grisolia Medal and a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award. He was elected to the Association of American Physicians and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Dawson laboratory focuses on neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Dawson’s discoveries are enabling clinical strategies for disease modifying therapies for Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease as well as other neurodegenerative diseases.