Bradley Hyman

Bradley T. Hyman, M.D., Ph.D., is the John B. Penney, Jr. Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital where he has a clinical practice in the Memory Disorder Unit, caring for patients with dementing illness. He is the Immediate Past Director, of the Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center (MADRC). Dr. Hyman’s laboratory has utilized human neuropathology, as well as cell and animal models, to understand clinical-pathological correlates in neurodegenerative diseases, as well as animal and cell models to explore potential molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration. A focus has been the use of advanced microscopy and biophysical methods –developing nonlinear optics techniques including multiphoton microscopy for in vivo imaging of plaques, tangles, as well as novel methods to detect protein-protein interactions and changes in protein conformation in a cellular context. His contributions include neuropathological studies to understand the drive