Aimee Kao, M.D., Ph.D.
John Douglas French Foundation Endowed Professorship
Director, UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program
Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Aimee Kao, MD, PhD, holds the John Douglas French Foundation Endowed Professorship and is a Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. She serves as Director of the UCSF Medical Scientist Training Program. Dr. Kao is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of age-related neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, PSP, CBD and FTD. She studied Neuroscience at Brown University before receiving her MD and PhD degrees from the University of Iowa. She then completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Neurology residency at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was Chief Resident. She performed a clinical fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and a post-doctoral research fellowship in the molecular genetics of aging prior to starting her independent research group at UCSF. Dr. Kao’s laboratory investigates the basic pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders, with a focus on how aging, stress and gene mutations disrupt lysosomal function and protein homeostasis. She currently holds multiple government, private foundation and industry-awarded research grants and directs a NIH-funded FTD Center without Walls on Tau Metabolism. Dr. Kao has been awarded the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Distinguished Investigator Award in Neurodegenerative Diseases, the Glenn Award for Research in the Biological Mechanisms of Aging and the Derek Denny Brown Award from the American Neurological Society.
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