Claudio A. Cuello MD, DSc, FRSC

Dr. Claudio Cuello is the Charles E. Frosst/Merck Chair in Pharmacology and past Head of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He leads a research team working on the multidisciplinary aspects of brain repair, brain aging and cellular and molecular neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr Cuello is an author of more than 300 peer reviewed scientific publications, edited several books in his field and is on the editorial boards of numerous journals in the Neurosciences.

He is a past Staff Scientist of the Cambridge MRC-NCP Unit and past Professor in Neuropharmacology at Oxford University. Dr. Cuello graduated in Medicine in 1965 from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and in 1986 was granted a D.Sc degree by Oxford University for outstanding contributions to Neuroscience. He has been named Honorary Professor at the School of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Buenos Aires University and received an Honorary Doctorate in Sciences from the University of Ceara, Brazil and an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from Kuopio University, Finland. He has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has received the Novartis Senior Award of the Pharmacological Society of Canada, the H. Lehman Award from the Canadian College of NeuroPsychopharmacology and has been named “Highly Cited Neuroscientist” by the ISI (Institute of Scientific Information, USA). He is presently an Adjunct Professor in Neuropharmacology at the Scripps Institute, La Jolla (CA) and Visiting Professor at the Departments of Pathology and Pharmacology at Oxford University.