John Hardy#
| Membership Number: | 4758 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/research/departments/department-molecular-neuroscience |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease - Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UK
- 2012 Head of Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, UK
- 2001 Professor of Neuroscience, University College, London (UCL) UK
- 2001 - 2007 Tenured Senior Investigator and Chief of Laboratory of Neurogenetics, NIH, USA
- 2001 - 2004 Visiting Scientist, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, USA
- 1996 - 2001 Director of Neuroscience and Consultant (Professor), Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, USA
- 1992 - 1996 Pfeiffer Professor in Alzheimer´s Research, Departments of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neurology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
- 1984 - 1992 Assistant, then (1989) Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, St. Mary's Hospital
- Medical School, Imperial College, London.
- 1983 - 1984 Assistant Professor, Swedish Brain Bank, Umea, Sweden
- 1979 - 1983 Postdoctoral Fellow, MCR Neuropathogenesis Unit, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Genetics
- Alzheimer's disease
Honours and Awards
- 2023 - Honorary Doctor of the University of Rijeka
- 2022 - Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award
- 2018 Brain Prize - Lundbeck Foundation
- 2017 Honorary Doctor of Science, Leeds University
- 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2016 Helis Prize John Hopkins University
- 2015 Pritzker Prize (MJFox) Prize for Parkinson's Disease Research
- 2015 Elected Member of EMBO
- 2015 Piepenbrock-DZNE Award
- 2014 The Michael J. Fox Foundation award for Parkinson research
- 2014 Thudichum Medal from the Biochemical Society
- 2014 Dan David Prize for work on the amyloid gene encoding APP
- 2014 Awarded the 2015 Thudichum Medal by Biochemical Society
- 2011 Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer's Disease Research
- 2011 IFRAD European Grand Prize for Alzheimer's Research
- 2011 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology
- 2010 Honorary Doctor of Science, Newcastle University
- 2009 FRS - Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2008 Honorary MD, Umeå University, Sweden
- 2008 FMedSci - Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science
- 2008 Anne Mari Opprecht Prize for Parkinson's Disease Research
- 2002 Kaul Prize for Alzheimer Research
- 1995 Met Life Prize (USA: shared) for Alzheimer's Disease Research
- 1995 Allied Signal Prize (USA) for Progress in Aging Research
- 1993 Potamkin Prize (USA: shared) for Alzheimer's Disease Research
- 1992 IPSEN Prize (France: shared) research into Alzheimer's Disease
- 1991 Peter Debje Prize (Belgium), for Research into Alzheimer's Disease
- 1986 Cottrell Fellowship (UK) for Research into Alzheimer's Disease
