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ALZpath was founded with the vision of improving the lives of those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease

Founded in 2020, we are a passionate, diverse, and focused group of medical researchers, healthcare professionals, and renowned scientific advisors dedicated to transforming the Alzheimer’s disease ecosystem through timely diagnosis.

 

We understand the undue impact this disease places upon persons, families, caregivers, and the community at large. We are rooted in the belief that with a timely and accurate diagnosis, targeted treatment, education, and the appropriate care and support resources, it is possible for people to live well after an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis. This is possible only by fundamentally rethinking, and rewriting the current diagnosis, treatment, and management paradigm.

Through our passion, creativity, and perseverance, we will rewrite the Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, treatment, and management paradigm. We are steadfast in our commitment to improve the lives of those impacted by this disease.

Leadership Team

Mike Banville

CEO AND PRESIDENT
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Jacob Hunter

Chief Business Officer
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Steve Haft

Chief Financial Officer
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Lee Honigberg

VP of Research & Development
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Jas Chahal

Chief Legal Officer
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Venkat Shastri, PhD

Co-Founder, Advisor
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Board of Directors

Jerre Stead

Co-Founder, Chair
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John Hensing

John Hensing, MD

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Harry Johns

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Irit Rappley, PhD

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John Courtney

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Samantha L. Budd Haebelrein, Ph.D.

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Advisory Board

Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD

Distinguished Scientific Advisor
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Jeff Cummings, MD, ScD(HC)

Chair
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Peter Snyder, PhD

Vice Chair
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Kaj Blennow, MD, PhD

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Jeff Dage, PhD

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Sterling Johnson, PhD

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Soeren Mattke, MD, DSc

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Eric Reiman, MD

Co-Founder
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Michael Weiner, MD

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Mike Banville

CEO and President

Mike has led organizations through a wide range of business stages across sectors including healthcare, higher education, technology and energy. He previously served as CEO at Game Plan, Sensable Health and SSB, and held executive roles at IHS Markit, including business unit and commercial leadership and global sales strategies. 

Since his extensive career at IHS Markit, Mike has served as a business builder, leading a myriad of private companies to enable them to scale to the next level, including sales to strategic buyers. He earned his BA in Economics at Boston College and MBA from Babson College. 

Jacob Hunter

Chief Business Officer

Jacob serves as Chief Business Officer of ALZpath. He joined ALZpath in 2020 as Vice President of Corporate and Business Development. Jake has over 15 years of experience in biotech, biopharma, and diagnostic business development with a focus on negotiating and structuring complex and collaborative partnerships. He has held commercial, business development, and marketing leadership positions of increasing responsibility at Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Agilent Technologies, and Foundation Medicine; and has extensive international work experience in the European Union, South America, and the United States. Jake is a combat veteran, having served in the United States Army and achieving the rank of Captain prior to an honorable discharge. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Steve Haft

Chief Financial Officer

Steve is Chief Financial Officer at ALZpath. Steve also provides management consulting services to other micro-cap organizations, with a concentration in healthcare and life sciences. Steve previously served as CFO at Integrated Home Care Services and CanoHealth, the latter of which grew revenue by nearly 10x in three years and went public under his leadership.

Steve’s other experience includes various financial management positions in public and private equity portfolio companies.  He started his career in public accounting at Price Waterhouse and Deloitte & Touche. He earned his B.S. in Accounting and Master of Accounting from the University of Florida, and is a CPA. Steve has also been a high school football official in Broward County, Florida for over 15 years.

Lee Honigberg

Vice President, Research & Development

Lee was most recently Senior Director and Distinguished Scientist in Translational Medicine at Genentech, leading a group responsible for biomarker development for programs in neuroscience, ophthalmology, cardiovascular and metabolic disease. 

He is author on >20 publications related to biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration from his work at Genentech. Prior to Genentech, Lee was at Pharmacyclics and led the preclinical development of the btk inhibitor ibrutinib, including use of a novel target engagement biomarker in Phase I.  Ibrutinib was the first approved Btk inhibitor, establishing a new standard of treatment in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Lee’s contributions were recognized by the 2019 ACS Heroes in Chemistry award. 
Lee also worked at Celera Genomics where he used genetics and model organisms for target discovery and lead optimization. 

Lee received a PhD in Neuroscience from UCSF and a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

Jaspal Chahal

Chief Legal Officer

Jas Chahal is an experienced Executive and Chief Legal Officer with a proven track record of building and leading Legal, Risk, and Compliance functions for international corporations.

She has over 30 years of business and legal experience, gained working for multi-billion dollar companies operating in diverse industries and publicly listed companies. She has a wealth of knowledge and expertise operating at the board and executive level, managing corporate governance, risk mitigation strategies, scaling and restructuring business operations through acquisitions, integrations, divestitures, and transformational initiatives.

Until recently, Jas was Chief Legal Officer and Board Secretary for Clarivate Plc (leading information services provider), overseeing their Legal Compliance. Enterprise Risk Management,  Business Insurance, and Corporate Sustainability functions. Prior to this, Jas was VP and GC for Sabre Corp (technology provider in the Travel Industry), where she led the global team that managed legal affairs for Sabre’s Travel Network Solutions business. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for IHS Markit (part of S&P Global) managing legal affairs for the company’s operations. 

Jas is also a shareholder/director of her family-owned healthcare business, operating 3 residential care and nursing homes. She was a trustee on not for profit board of Active Prospects, an organisation dedicated to supporting people with complex learning and physical disabilities to live independently.

She qualified as a Solicitor and has practiced law both in the UK and the U.S. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law from the University of London.

Venkat Shastri, PhD

Co-Founder, Advisor

Venkat Shastri co-founded ALZpath in 2020 with Eric Reiman and Jerre Stead to transform the Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis and the care of AD patients. In his prior role as CEO and Director of ALZpath, he set the company’s direction and strategy, and prioritizes its products and services. Venkat is also a member of the Board of Directors of Primo Energy (renewable energy) and is Chairman of Darroch Medical (medical devices). Before this, Venkat served as Chief Industry Advisor of PCN Technology, after leading the company as its CEO and Director for eight years. Between 2002 and 2004, Venkat was VP of Engineering at Palomar Technologies, a semiconductor packaging equipment and process solutions. Prior to Palomar, he was Senior Director of Engineering and Product Development at KLA-Tencor, where he managed automation products and services. Venkat and the companies he led have received numerous awards, including the Engineering Leadership Award from the San Diego County Engineering Council (2019), Red Herring Global Top 100 Company Award (2012), Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Finalist in 2011), and Frost & Sullivan Innovation Award (2007).

Jerre Stead

Co-Founder, Chair

With his wife Mary Joy Stead, Jerre founded the Stead Foundation, which partners with nonprofits and to date has granted more than $400 million to healthcare, education, and faith-based organizations. In 2023, Jerre founded Stead Impact Ventures as an extension of the Foundation’s commitment with the mission to invest with responsibility and purpose to positively impact global health and wellbeing.


Jerre is chair emeritus at Clarivate after serving as executive chair and chief executive officer for more than three years. Jerre was the CEO of Churchill Capital Corp until its merger with Clarivate in May 2019. Prior to that he served as chairman and CEO of IHS Markit, Ltd. and executive chairman and CEO at IHS Inc., its predecessor company. He has led other highly successful technology and information companies such as Ingram Micro, Legent Corporation, AT&T Global Business Communications Systems, AT&T Global Information Solutions (NCR Corporation), NCR Japan, Square D, and Honeywell-Phillips Medical Electronics.

Over his 42-year career he has invested in nearly 40 startup companies and served on 36 corporate and 27 nonprofit boards.

John Hensing, MD

After residency training and serving as a flight surgeon for the US Air Force, Dr. Hensing practiced internal medicine for 18 years prior to joining the Samaritan Health System (SHS) as Senior Vice President of Medical Services in 1995, and he assumed the role as senior physician leader within Banner in 2000. His responsibilities included the Departments of Care Management, Risk Management, Corporate Information Technology, Medical and Clinical Informatics, Process Engineering/Design, Clinical Innovation, Remote Presence Technology, Clinical Education, and Banner Research. Dr. Hensing was awarded the Arizona Distinguished Internist of the Year Award in 1993 and the 2011 Laureate Award by the Arizona Chapter of the American College of Physicians. He is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians and was recognized as one of the 50 most influential physicians in the U.S. by Modern HealthCare in 2013.

Harry Johns

Harry Johns is a member of the Alzpath Board. He was previously the CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association, taking on the role in 2005 and leaving his staff position, to become a volunteer for the organization, at the end of 2022. He served the American Cancer Society for more than twenty years, where his last role was on the executive team, as Executive Vice President, responsible for organization-wide strategy, including consumer-facing engagement. 

He began his career on Capitol Hill, as a Congressional staff member, responsible for special projects. He has been a member of the board of the National Health Council and a member of the board and executive committee of Research America. He served six years as a member of the federal government’s Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s Research, Care, and Services, appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. And, he has served as a member and Chair of the World Dementia Council, and as the Chair of its Trustees, originally appointed to the Council by the government of the United Kingdom, and elected to the subsequent roles. 

He has a bachelor’s degree in business from Eckerd College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He understands Alzheimer’s not just from his professional experience, but also from his personal encounters with it, as a caregiver, along with his wife, Cindy, for both his mother and hers.

Irit Rappley, PhD

Irit Rappley is Vice President of Neuroscience and Translational Research at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, where she leads drug discovery efforts in the neuroscience space and is working to reimagine the drug discovery process through the application of machine learning and automation. Dr. Rappley began her industry career in the Protein Homeostasis group at Celgene, working on teams that identified and developed small molecule drug candidates for leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood cancers. Several of those candidates are in clinical trials today. She helped to initiate and build the Neuroscience group at Celgene, serving in positions of increasing responsibility and leading external collaborations that generated multiple investigational new drug applications. After the acquisition of Celgene by Bristol Myers Squibb, Dr. Rappley transitioned into the role of Scientific Director of Discovery and Translational Research, Neuroscience, where she led the biomarkers teams for all neuroscience programs entering the clinic. She earned her PhD in Neurobiology at Harvard and completed her postdoctoral training at Scripps Research, with a focus on the biochemistry and biophysics of protein homeostasis, misfolding, and aggregation.

John Courtney

In addition to serving on several boards John Courtney is an Operating Partner at InTandem Capital. John will often assume the role of interim Chief Operating Officer in order to assist the CEO round out the executive team. John is able to leverage his experience across a wide array of industries, from small companies to large multinationals, and domestic and international markets to build rigor into the processes.

 

Before joining InTandem, John served as head of operations for eBay’s Asia Pacific business headquartered in Singapore. His responsibilities included cross-border payment operations, counterfeit and fraud management, as well as warehouse and supply chain logistics for all domestic/international shipping operations. Prior to this role, John oversaw eBay’s third-party partnerships and commercial agreements worldwide. Prior to joining eBay in 2009, John was Chief Information Officer for Clayton Holdings. He oversaw software engineering for a suite of products that served the fixed income and asset management market. John was also responsible for the telecom/datacom infrastructure and all the data centers.

 

John previously served as the Vice President of Corporate Business Applications at Intuit, other roles including oversight for product management, software engineering, data warehouse, analytics, call center, and supply chain systems. Prior to Intuit, John was a founding member and Chief Technology Officer of EmployeeMatters, an HR, benefits, and payroll startup acquired by Intuit. He also served as VP of Operations & Technology at Citibank Investment Services, and First Vice President of Electronic Trading Systems at Waterhouse Securities.

 

John also teaches at the University of Iowa Tippie school of business. He resides in Iowa City, Iowa and is a father to three adult kids. His passions include team sports.

Samantha L. Budd Haebelrein

Samantha was appointed Senior Advisor to the ICG Life Sciences team in September 2023. She is a renowned world leader in international drug development for patients with an array of neurological diseases, including a substantial background in Alzheimer’s disease, and she brings extensive experience in clinical development, translational medicine, and global regulatory experience. 

Samantha currently serves as the Group Chief Medical Officer of Enigma Biomedical Group where she oversees the development of therapeutic solutions to combat neurodegenerative diseases. Samantha recently held the position of Senior Vice President and Head of Neurodegeneration at Biogen, where she led and co-led the development of two revolutionary drugs, ADUHELM and LEQEMBI, both of which were approved by the FDA for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. 

Prior to this, Samantha worked at AstraZeneca and held senior roles across research and development in the US, Canada, and Sweden. Samantha currently sits on the board of The Boston Home, a not-for-profit nursing care facility for adults with progressive neurological diseases and Vigil Neuroscience (NASDQ: VIGL) a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on neurodegenerative diseases. 

Henrik Zetterberg

Distinguished Scientific Advisor

Henrik Zetterberg is a Professor of Neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and University College London, UK, and a Clinical Chemist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, leads the UK DRI Fluid Biomarker Laboratory at UCL, and is a Key Member of the Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Visiting Professor in the UW Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin. His main research focus and clinical interest are fluid biomarkers for brain diseases, neurodegenerative diseases in particular.

Jeff Cummings, MD, ScD(HC)

Chair

Jeffrey Cummings, MD, ScD, is the Joy Chambers-Grundy Professor of Brain Science, Director of the Chambers-Gundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Co-Director of the Pam Quirk Brain Health and Biomarker Laboratory, Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). Dr. Cummings is globally recognized for his contributions to Alzheimer’s research, drug development, and clinical trials. He has been recognized for his research and leadership contributions in the field of Alzheimer’s disease through many awards including the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Award of the national Alzheimer’s Association (2008), Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology (2017), Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (2010), Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award from the national Alzheimer’s Association (2019), and the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Melvin R. Goodes Prize. He was featured in the Gentleman’s Quarterly (June 2009) as a “Rock Star of Science™.” Dr. Cummings completed Neurology residency and a Fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at Boston University, followed by a Research Fellowship in Neuropathology and Neuropsychiatry at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London. Dr. Cummings was formerly Director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at UCLA, and Director of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Dr. Cummings’ interests embrace clinical trials, developing new therapies for brain diseases, and the interface of neuroscience and society. He has authored or edited 43 books and published over 800 peer-reviewed papers.

Peter Snyder, PhD

Vice Chair

Professor Snyder received his doctorate in clinical neuropsychology and behavioral neuroscience from Michigan State University in 1992, following a residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Snyder was awarded the 1992 Wilder Penfield Fellowship by the American Epilepsy Society and Epilepsy Foundation of America, and he served as a Clinical Neurosciences Fellow in the NIMH Clinical Research Center for the Study of Schizophrenia at Hillside Hospital (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) in 1992 and 1993.

Dr. Synder is a Professor of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island. Dr. Snyder is the Founding Editor-in-Chief for Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (an Alzheimer’s Association open access journal), and he manages a robust research program. His academic interests span across a range of topics in neuropharmacology, neurophysiology, history of neuroscience and research ethics; his clinical interests are currently focused on the topics of aging and dementia. From 1998 through 2005, Dr. Snyder was employed as a scientist, clinician, and director at Pfizer Global Research & Development – Groton Laboratories (Connecticut, USA) – the largest research laboratory of Pfizer Inc. Dr. Snyder was responsible for the identification and development of novel clinical technologies and biomarkers for the CNS therapeutic area at Pfizer. As a Director and Early Clinical Leader at Pfizer, Dr. Snyder led the development of novel compounds for the treatment of schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Kaj Blennow, MD, PhD

Dr. Blennow is professor and academic chair in neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg, and head of the Clinical Neurochemistry Lab at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a specialist competency in both general psychiatry and clinical chemistry, and holds the Torsten Söderberg Professorship at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Blennow has published more than 1,800 original research papers and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, has an h-index of 161, and his papers have been cited more than 125,000 times.

He is president of the Society for CSF Analysis and Clinical Neurochemistry, head of the Alzheimer’s Association quality control program for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, and chair of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) working group for CSF proteins. He has received several scientific awards, including the CINP Award (1992), the IPA Research Award (1993), the Alois Alzheimer Research Award (2001), the ECNP Clinical Research Award (2010), the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research (2011), the International Foundation for Research in Alzheimer’s Disease (IFRAD) European Grand Prix for Research (2013), and the Söderberg Prize in Medicine from the Swedish Society of Medicine (2016).

Jeff Dage, PhD

Jeffrey L. Dage, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Professor of Neurology at Indiana University School of Medicine. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics. He is the co-leader of the genetics biomarker and biosample core of the Indiana Alzheimer’s Research Center and of the Longitudinal Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Study. Dr. Dage is also affiliated with Stark Neurosciences Research Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine. Prior to joining IUSM, Dr. Dage worked for Eli Lilly and Company for over 20 years where he pioneered the development of assays for measuring phosphorylated tau in blood.

Sterling Johnson, PhD

Sterling Johnson PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with research interests in early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. He leads the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP), a longitudinal cohort study of 1500+ people at varying levels of risk for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. He is the associate director and Biomarker Core leader in the Wisconsin ADRC, as well as the associate director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute. Johnson is a co-lead principal investigator for the ADRC Consortium for Clarity in ADRD Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI). ADRC’s nationwide collaborate in CLARiTI for the purpose of elucidating the multiple intersecting etiologies that cause cognitive impairment and that may be present in any given patient. CLARiTI launched in 2023 and will establish standardized brain imaging and blood plasma test protocols to analyze levels and types of amyloid and tau, hallmark biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease, together with assays of other proteinopathies.

Soeren Mattke, MD, DSc

Soeren Mattke (MD, DSc) is a Research Professor of Economics at USC where he directs the USC Brain Health Observatory. The Observatory conducts research into health system preparedness for diagnosing and treating disorders of the central nervous system. It has published reports on 15 countries’ readiness for an Alzheimer’s treatment and numerous papers on the economic, political and societal implications of such a treatment. Prior to joining USC, Dr. Mattke led RAND Health’s private sector practice and worked at the OECD in Paris, in the healthcare practice of Bain & Company in Boston, at Abt Associates, a policy consulting firm in Cambridge, MA, and at Harvard University. He trained as an internist and cardiologist at the University of Munich and received his doctoral degree in health policy at Harvard.

Eric Reiman, MD

Co-Founder

Dr. Reiman is an ALZpath Co-Founder and Advisor. He is also Chief Executive Officer of Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, University Professor of Neuroscience at Arizona State University, Senior Scientist at the Translational Genomics Research Institute, Director of the NIH-sponsored Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), Director of the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium, and a leader of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Initiative (API). A psychiatrist and brain imaging researcher by background, his interests include brain imaging, emerging blood-based biomarkers, APOE and genomics research, the unusually early detection and tracking of Alzheimer’s disease, the discovery and accelerated evaluation of Alzheimer’s prevention therapies, and new models of research collaboration and clinical care. He is an author of more than 600 publications, a principal investigator of several large research NIH grants, other research grants, and contracts; a former member of the National Advisory Council on Aging (NIA Council); and a recipient of the Potamkin Prize for his contributions to the study, early detection, and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.

Michael Weiner, MD

Dr. Weiner is Professor Emeritus in Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the Principal Investigator of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and BrainHealthRegistry.org at the Northern California Institute for Research and Education (NCIRE). Dr. Weiner has been conducting research for more than 50 years and is Principal Investigator of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), and the BrainHealthRegistry.org. In 1980, he was one of the first to perform MRS on an intact animal. He then pursued development of MRI/MRS as a clinical tool and established the Magnetic Resonance Unit at the San Francisco VA (later named Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases). Since 1990, he’s been a Professor in Radiology, Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology at UCSF. Dr. Weiner has published over 1000 peer-reviewed articles, holds 19 separate research grants, and has received numerous honors. Most recently, an Honorary Professorship Award from Australian Catholic University in 2018, a Docteur Honoris Causa Degree from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France in 2019, and the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, from the Alzheimer’s Association in 2021.