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Awards Presented at ICAD
ICAD provides the Association with the opportunity to present awards to some of the best and brightest leaders in the Alzheimer research field.
These prestigious awards recognize the work of distinguished Alzheimer researchers, as well as those who are just beginning their career in this vital field. The Association is proud to celebrate the individuals who have made significant contributions to further the vision of a world without Alzheimer's disease.
We congratulate all the honorees and thank them for their tireless work on behalf of the millions worldwide affected by Alzheimer's. Their dedication and drive has helped to make made significant advances in the Alzheimer research field, and it is our pleasure to recognize their efforts.
Lifetime Achievement Awards in Alzheimer's Disease Research
Henry Wisniewski, M.D., Ph.D., Khalid Iqbal, Ph.D., and Bengt Winblad, M.D., Ph.D., were the founders of ICAD in 1988. Lifetime Achievement Awards named in their honor are given to three outstanding scientists who have dedicated their careers to helping millions around the world through their research.
Together, these awards are given to four outstanding scientists who have dedicated their careers to helping millions around the world through their research.
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2010 Recipient
Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award
Takeshi Iwatsubo, MD
University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Japan
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2010 Recipient
Khalid Iqbal Award Lifetime Achievement Award
Karen Hsiao Ashe
N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minn., United States
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2010 Recipient
Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award
Marsel Mesulam
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center (CNADC), Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, Ill., United States
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Zaven Khachaturian Award
This distinguished award, named in honor of Dr. Zaven Khachaturian, was established to recognize an individual whose compelling vision, selfless dedication and extraordinary achievement has significantly advanced the field of Alzheimer science.
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2010 Recipient
Zaven Khachaturian Award
Marilyn S. Albert, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Neurology, The John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Immediate Past Chair, Medical & Scientific Advisory Council, Alzheimer’s Association
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Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Awards
The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Awards offer unrestricted prizes in recognition of the best papers published in a peer-reviewed journal between August 1, 2006, and June 30, 2009. Founded by Mony De Leon in 2004, the original 11 contributors to the award donated all royalties from their book, "An Atlas of Alzheimer's Disease," in order to recognize the best published papers in Alzheimer neuroimaging.
Best Paper - 2010 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Award
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2010 Recipient
Alix de Calignon
Hyman Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital
MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease
Charlestown, Mass., United States
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Best Paper - New Investigator 2010 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Award
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2010 Recipient
Gil D. Rabinovici
University of California, San Francisco
UCSF Memory & Aging Center
San Francisco, Calif. United States
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2009 Winners
Lifetime Achievement Awards in Alzheimer's Disease Research
Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award
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2009 Recipient
Richard Mayeux, M.D., M.S.
Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Director of the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center at Columbia University in New York City. |
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Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award
2009 Recipient
Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Ph.D., MBA
Director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. |
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Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award
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2009 Recipient
Martin Rossor, M.D.
Head of the Division of Neurology and Director of the Dementia Research Centre at the UCL Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. |
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Zaven Khachaturian Award
2009 Recipient
William R. Markesbery, M.D.
Dr. Markesbery was professor of Pathology and Neurology at the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, and director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. Dr. Markesbery passed away in 2009. |
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Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Awards
Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Award
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2009 Recipient
Brian Bacskai, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital in Charleston is the winner of the 2009 Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Award for his article entitled Ab Plaques Lead to Aberrant Regulation of Calcium Homeostasis In Vivo Resulting in Structural and Functional Disruption of Neuronal Networks.
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Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging: New Investigator Award
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2009 Recipient
Jennifer Whitwell, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is the winner of the 2009 Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging: New Investigator award for her paper entitled MRI correlates of Neurofibrillary tangle pathology at autopsy: a voxel-based Morphometry Study.
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