Research on Alzheimer's disease and neurodegenerative diseases is steadily progressing. In this section you will find various news items that make up the current news in this field, in Switzerland and around the world.
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Professor Giacobini is a regular contributor to the BHR website, writing reviews of scientific articles related to Alzheimer's disease.
Professor Ezio Giacobini obtained his PhD in cellular neuropharmacology from the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) in 1959. In 1995, he became Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Geriatrics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva and Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Neurology at the Southern Illinois School of Medicine (USA). His main research interests are in the preclinical and clinical development of drug therapies for Alzheimer's disease. He received the Life time achievement award in Alzheimer's disease research from the Alzheimer's Association (USA) at the 8th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Stockholm in 2002.