Charbel Moussa MBBS, PhD

Charbel Moussa MBBS, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center with intensive experience and knowledge about memory and movement disorders. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Dementia and Parkinsonism that studies the pathology and treatment of Parkinson and other movement disorders and Alzheimer and related dementia. Dr. Moussa's lab is leading research in drug repositioning and the effects of a class of drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors in neurodegeneration. Dr. Moussa established GUMC Translational Neurotherapeutics Program (TNP) that executes clinical trials based on drug discovery within his preclinical lab, providing a continuum from basic and pre-clinical research to regulatory science, biomarker studies and phase I and II clinical trials.