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Dr. Rudolph Tanzi serves as Chair of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium. He is also the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit and Vice-Chair of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Tanzi directs the Alzheimer’s Genome Project and over the past three decades discovered many of the genes responsible for Alzheimer’s disease genes and other neurological disease genes including that responsible for Wilson’s disease. He is also developing several novel therapies for Alzheimer’s, two of which are in clinical trials.

Dr. Tanzi has co-authored over 470 research articles, including three of the top ten most cited AD papers and contributes regularly to Huffington Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He also co-authored the popular trade books “Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease” and New York Times Bestseller, “Super Brain” with Dr. Deepak Chopra. Dr. Tanzi also hosts the nationwide public television special, “Super Brain with Dr. Rudolph Tanzi” that explores new discoveries in neuroscience to maximize the potential of the brain.

Dr. Tanzi serves on dozens of editorial and scientific advisory boards, and as Chair of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund Research Consortium. He is the recipient of the two highest awards for Alzheimer’s disease research: The Metropolitan Life Award and The Potamkin Prize and also honored by The Chopra Foundation’s 2012 Rustum Roy Spirit Award for his exemplary work in the in science and serving humanity. Dr. Tanzi has been included on the “Harvard 100 Most Influential Alumni” by 02138 Magazine, and was chosen by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation as a “Rock Star of Science”. Most recently, he was included on the Time magazine “2015 TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World”, and has been acknowledged by as one of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”, 2014” by Reuters-Thompson, and named one of the “Top 20 Translational Scientists, 2013” by Nature Biotechnology.

Dr. Tanzi’s musical pursuits have lead him to perform the keyboards with Joe Perry, lead guitarist and co-founder of the legendary rock band, Aerosmith as well as appearing on Aerosmith’s 2012 album “Music From Another Dimension. More recently, Dr. Tanzi has teamed up with singer/song-writer, Chris Mann, to create music and music videos to fundraise for Alzheimer’s disease research.