Exciting news from the 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC)! The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce that Michael Weiner, MD, professor in residence, received the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award.
AAIC Lifetime Achievement Awards are named in honor of Henry Wisniewski, MD, PhD, Khalid Iqbal, PhD and Bengt Winblad, MD, PhD, co-founders of the International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, now known as the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. They honor significant contributions to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia research, either through a single scientific discovery or a body of work.
Dr. Weiner is principal investigator of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), the largest observational study in the world concerning Alzheimer’s disease and former…