Victor L. Villemagne MD

Prof Villemagne graduated Cum Laude from the National University of Buenos Aires in 1983. He was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine by the National Atomic Energy Commission in 1984, and continued his post-graduate studies at the Division of Nuclear Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He subsequently furthered his molecular neuroimaging training at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, and the University of Pittsburgh. He now holds the appointment of Senior Research Fellow in Neuroscience at the PET Centre, Austin Hospital. Since 2003, he has performed several preclinical studies of new tracers for A? and tau with in vitro techniques and animal models and human PET and SPECT studies - including blood metabolite analysis and kinetic modeling for quantification of binding parameters- at Austin Health. A/Prof Villemagne have been principal or co-investigator in several national and international grants.

A/Prof Villemagne has authored or co-authored ten book chapters, several requested reviews on dementia imaging, and more than 200 original research publications, with senior or first author papers on PET research in leading international peer-reviewed journals, particularly in the field of neuroreceptor and amyloid imaging studies. He has been invited to chair and present at national and international meetings in the area of biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeneration. Among other honours, he has received the Foerderer Fund for Excellence Award from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2002, the JAAME Fellowship from Japan in 2007 and the ANSTO Nuclear Medicine Award in 2010. More recently, he received the de Leon Prize in Neuroimaging - Senior Scientist by the Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (2013), and the Christopher Clark Award for the Continuing Advancement in the Field of Human Amyloid Imaging, Miami (2014).