Bart De Strooper#
| Membership Number: | 3044 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Present and Previous Positions
- December 2016 Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute (DRI) at University College London
- 2007 Departmental director of the Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, VIB
- 2005 Head of the Department of Human Genetics, KULeuven
- 2002 Full Professor in molecular medicine (Gewoon Hoogleraar), KULeuven
Fields of Scholarship
- Regulated intramembrane proteolysis
- PARL
- APP
- Gene transfer
- Neuronal cell biology
- pink-1
- LRRK2
- Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
- γ-secretase
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Presenilin
- miRNA
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Potamkin Prize
- 2003 Alois Alzheimer Award
- 2005 Joseph Maisin Price
- 2008 Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease (together with Robert Vassar and Philip C. Wong)
- 2018 The Brain Prize (together with John Hardy, Christian Haass and Michel Goedert)
- 2018 Commander of the Order of Leopold I
