Meet Dr. William Jagust

Prof., MD. Expert in Alzheimer’s Disease. Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine, Professor, Public Health and Neuroscience with focus on Brain aging, Dementia and imaging with PET and MRI.
Dr. William Jagust at OptoCeutics

Dr. William Jagust

Prof., MD, Expert in Alzheimer’s Disease

Dr. Jagust received training as a clinical neurologist, after which he served on the faculty at the UC Davis School of Medicine where he was department chair from 1998-2003. He moved to UC Berkeley in 2004 where he is currently a professor in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the School of Public Health and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Dr. Jagust’s research is oriented towards understanding the changes in the brain that occur with aging and Alzheimer’s disease. His work uses multimodality imaging and cognitive neuroscience approaches. He leads the PET Core of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, a 60-site multicenter, multimodal brain imaging project and is the Principal Investigator of the Berkeley Aging Cohort Study.

Dr. Jagust has served on many National Institute of Health review committees, including chairing the National Institute on Aging’s Neuroscience of Aging Review Committee. He is a member of the editorial board of the Annals of Neurology, Brain Imaging and Behavior and Alzheimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders and is an associate editor of the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. He is the recipient of the 2013 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases. 

William J. Jagust serves as a consultant to Bioclinica, Genentech, CuraSen, Biogen, and Grifols.

How William Supports OptoCeutics
Dr. William Jagust contributes to Optoceutics with his distinguished expertise in PET imaging and academic Alzheimer’s research. With his background in the utilization of PET scans to evaluate brain amyloid and tau pathology, he is providing critical insights that inform the design and interpretation of imaging data within clinical studies.

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