Agneta Nordberg

Dr Agneta Nordberg obtained her MD, PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden and is professor in Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet and Senior Consultant, Theme Aging, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm. Her research group at Karolinska institutet, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research has a translational research approach using in vitro and in vivo molecular brain imaging techniques, with the aim to characterize the complex pathophysiological features of neurodegenerative diseases, with a strong focus on Alzheimer´s disease but also on other proteinopathies, in order to develop new early diagnostic markers and new drug targets for early intervention in disease process. Agneta Nordberg has pioneered in field of cholinergic neurotransmission , nicotinic acetylcholine receptors as well as in the development of amyloid PET imaging and introducing the multi-tracer PET concept including Tau and Astrocyte PET combined with MRI, plasma biomarkers, cognition