Peter T. Lansbury, Jr., Ph. D.
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Lansbury received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University with honors in chemistry in 1980 and his doctorate in organic chemistry from Harvard University in 1985, working with Nobel laureate E. J. Corey. After a postdoctoral fellowship with the late Tom Kaiser at the Rockefeller University, he joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor of chemistry in 1988. He moved to his present position in 1996. Among other honors, he received the Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Excellence in Chemistry Award in 1995, the Abbott Distinguished Investigator Award in 1993, a Zenith Fellows award from the Alzheimer's Association in 1999, and was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator in 1990. Dr. Lansbury is director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence and is a member of the steering committee of the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair and co-founder and chair of the Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration. Dr. Lansbury is on the Scientific Advisory boards of En Vivo Pharmaceuticals, the ALS-Therapy Development Foundation, and the Boston Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of Molecular Biology and is on the board of directors of the Parkinson's Action Network.