William E. Klunk

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William E. Klunk
EducationShippensburg University B.S. Washington University in St. Louis M.D. Ph.D.
AwardsMetlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease[1] (2004)
Potamkin Prize (2008)
(2009)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh

William E. Klunk is an American psychiatrist and neurologist currently the Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology and Levidow-Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Disorders at University of Pittsburgh.[2][3]

He is one of the leading pioneers for in vivo amyloid imaging, which helps detect and quantify pathological protein aggregations in the brain of Alzheimer's patients.[4][5]

References[]

  1. ^ "MetLife Foundation Awards for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2018.
  2. ^ "William E. Klunk". pitt.edu. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. ^ "William E. Klunk". upmc.com. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  4. ^ "William E. Klunk, MD, PhD". UPMC | Life Changing Medicine. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  5. ^ Rabinovici, G. D.; Jagust, W. J. (2009). "Amyloid imaging in aging and dementia: testing the amyloid hypothesis in vivo". Behavioural Neurology. 21 (1): 117–128. doi:10.1155/2009/609839. ISSN 1875-8584. PMC 2804478. PMID 19847050.


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