Vascular Dementia

Biography

Daniel Alkon, M.D., serves as President, Chief Scientific Officer, and Scientific Founder of the Company. Dr. Alkon was the founding Scientific Director of the Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) from 1999 to 2016. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry in 1965 at the University of Pennsylvania. After earning his M.D. at Cornell University and finishing an internship in medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, he joined the staff of the National Institutes of Health where during his 30-year career he became a Medical Director in the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes and Chief of the Laboratory of Adaptive Systems. Dr. Alkon occupied the Toyota Chair in Neurodegenerative diseases at BRNI from June 2006 until September 23, 2016, and served as Research Professor in Biophysics at the Johns Hopkins University.

Research Interest

Neurological Disorders and Strokes