Dimitri Krainc

Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD, FANA is the Ward Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Director of the Feinberg Neuroscience Institute at Northwestern. Previously, Krainc spent two decades at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he completed his research and clinical training and served on faculty. His research group discovered how lysosomes and mitochondria interact in normal and diseased cells. This work opened a new area of cell biology for studies of diseases that involve mitochondria and lysosomes and led to pioneering design and development of targeted therapies. Krainc received the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, Outstanding Investigator award from NIH, and was elected to the Association of American Physicians, National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Inventors. He serves as President of the American Neurological Association.