Bengt Winblad
Department of Neuroscience Care and Society, Karolinska Institutet
Affiliated withKarolinska InstitutetKarolinska University Hospital
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Biography
Professor Bengt Winblad was until 2018 Head of the Division of Neurogeriatrics at Karolinska Institutet. He is currently leading his own research group in the same division, focusing on drug development. Bengt Winblad is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Solna and Chief Physician at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge. 2001-2019, he chaired the European Alzheimer Disease Consortium (EADC), currently consisting of 71 clinical research centers across Europe. Since 2009, he is a member of the Senate for the German national network on neurodegenerative disorders, DZNE. He was PI of the first EU Joint Program project, BIOMARKAPD aiming at standardizing sampling and measurement of biomarkers in Alzheimer and Parkinson disease. He has been given numerous international and national awards for his research. He has founded a number of international conferences, eg the ”International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD, renamed AAIC) and the International PharmacoEconomic Conferences on AD (IPECAD). He was a member of the Nobel Assembly, Karolinska Institutet 1988 – 2010. In 2009, he was recognized the world’s most prolific researcher in AD by the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and in 2016, he was recognized as one (out of five from Karolinska Institutet) of the most cited scientists worldwide.
JoVE Journal Publications
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