Alzheimer's disease

Todd E. Golde, MD, PhD, is director of the Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease in the Goizueta Institute @ Emory Brain Health. A Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar in Neuroscience, Dr. Golde holds a primary faculty appointment as professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology and a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine.

An international expert in the scientific understanding of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, he works to expand Emory's translational research for the development of new therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, while facilitating interdisciplinary research in neuroinflammation, bridging the neuroscience and immunology communities.

Prior to arriving at Emory, Dr. Golde was a professor of neuroscience and neurology at the University of Florida and director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute. He was also a founding director of the 1Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, a consortium of leading Florida institutions supported by the National Institutes of Health.