Dr. Steven E. Arnold is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the E. Gerald Corrigan PhD Endowed Chair in Alzheimer Therapeutics at Massachusetts General Hospital. After his training in both neurology and psychiatry, Dr. Arnold joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where he was Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology and Director of the Penn Memory Center, Associate Director and Clinical Core Leader of the Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center, and Associate Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute on Aging.
In 2015, Dr. Arnold moved to Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston to lead the Alzheimer’s Clinical and Translational Research Unit, conducting early phase clinical trial and biomarker research. He is also Managing Director of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center, a collaboration of the Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry and the Martinos Center for Neuroimaging.
Dr. Arnold has conducted longstanding research on neurodegenerative disease pathology, molecular biomarkers and therapeutics for cognitive decline and psychiatric syndromes in late life and has led broad clinical and translational research programs. He has authored over 400 scientific articles, reviews and chapters. Current scientific interests include biomarkers in brain aging and dementias, immune and metabolic factors driving dementia, and novel precision designs for clinical trials – all with the goal of accelerating therapeutics discovery and development.
