Ole Isacson MD, PhD

Dr. Ole Isacson is Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience) at Harvard Medical School. He is Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of the Neuroregeneration Research Institute at McLean Hospital and an NIH Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence grant awardee. Dr. Isacson was co-chair of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair and is Principal Faculty of Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He received his Medical Bachelor and Doctor of Medicine (a research doctoral degree in Medical Neurobiology, 1987) from the University of Lund in Sweden.

After a 2 year postdoctoral position at Cambridge University, England, Dr. Isacson was recruited to Harvard as an assistant Professor of Neuroscience and there established a small independent research laboratory for his work on neuroregeneration. Over the last 2 decades his original laboratory has grown to an internationally recognized academic research center for Parkinson's disease and related disorders, funded by the NIH, DOD and private foundations. Dr. Isacson's scientific models and studies of conceptually new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases have resulted in many new findings and clinical trials for Parkinson's and Huntington's disease.