Jintai Yu

The speaker is a leading researcher in neurodegenerative diseases, addressing the national priority of AD and PD prevention and control. He established the Chinese Healthy Aging and Dementia Community Cohort (HEAD), and has led systematic studies on disease mechanisms, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. As a key guideline contributor, he chaired international recommendations for AD prevention, and served as China’s Leading-PI for six global multicenter clinical trials, yielding multiple innovative results and national invention patents. As corresponding author, he published extensively in top journals including Cell, Science, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Aging, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. His works have been cited over 20,000 times, with 15 ESI highly cited papers; five were highlighted by NEJM, Nature, and BMJ as major medical advances.