Awards Presented at ICAD

ICAD provides the Association with the opportunity to present awards to some of the best and brightest leaders in the Alzheimer research field.

These prestigious awards recognize the work of distinguished Alzheimer researchers, as well as those who are just beginning their career in this vital field. The Association is proud to celebrate the individuals who have made significant contributions to further the vision of a world without Alzheimer's disease.

We congratulate all the honorees and thank them for their tireless work on behalf of the millions worldwide affected by Alzheimer's. Their dedication and drive has helped to make made significant advances in the Alzheimer research field, and it is our pleasure to recognize their efforts.

Lifetime Achievement Awards in Alzheimer's Disease Research

Henry Wisniewski, MD, PhD, Khalid Iqbal, PhD, and Bengt Winblad, MD, PhD, were the founders of ICAD in 1988. Lifetime Achievement Awards named in their honor are given to three outstanding scientists who have dedicated their careers to helping millions around the world through their research.

Together, these awards are given to four outstanding scientists who have dedicated their careers to helping millions around the world through their research.

Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award

2009 Recipient Richard Mayeux, M.D., M.S. Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Director of the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center at Columbia University in New York City.

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Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award

2009 Recipient Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Ph.D., MBA Director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine.

Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award

2009 Recipient Martin Rossor, M.D. Head of the Division of Neurology and Director of the Dementia Research Centre at the UCL Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.

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Zaven Khachaturian Award

This distinguished award, named in honor of Dr. Zaven Khachaturian, was established to recognize an individual whose compelling vision, selfless dedication and extraordinary achievement has significantly advanced the field of Alzheimer science. 

2009 Recipient William R. Markesbery, M.D. Dr. Markesbery is professor of Pathology and Neurology at the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, and director of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.

Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Awards

The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Awards offer unrestricted prizes in recognition of the best papers published in a peer-reviewed journal between August 1, 2006, and June 30, 2009.  Founded by Mony De Leon in 2004, the original 11 contributors to the award donated all royalties from their book, "An Atlas of Alzheimer's Disease", in order to recognize the best published papers in Alzheimer neuroimaging.

Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Award

2009 Recipient Brian Bacskai, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital in Charleston is the winner of the 2009 Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Award for his article entitled Ab Plaques Lead to Aberrant Regulation of Calcium Homeostasis In Vivo Resulting in Structural and Functional Disruption of Neuronal Networks.

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Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging: New Investigator Award

2009 Recipient Jennifer Whitwell, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is the winner of the 2009 Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging: New Investigator award for her paper entitled MRI correlates of Neurofibrillary tangle pathology at autopsy: a voxel-based Morphometry Study.

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2008 Winners

Lifetime Achievement Awards in Alzheimer's Disease Research

Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award

2008 Recipient Bernardino Ghetti, M.D. Dr. Ghetti is director of the Division of Neuropathology in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Indiana University, where he holds the titles of Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor. He also directs the Indiana Alzheimer's Disease Center.

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Khalid Iqbal and Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Awards

2008 Recipient Carl Cotman, Ph.D. Dr. Cotman is the director of the Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also a professor of neurology and neurobiology and behavior.

2008 Recipient Peter Davies, Ph.D. Dr. Davies is a professor of pathology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is also scientific director of the Litwin/Zucker Center for Research on Alzheimer's Disease at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore/Long Island Jewish Health System.

2008 Recipient Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D. Dr. Selkoe is the Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts.

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Zaven Khachaturian Award

2008 Recipient Steven T. DeKosky, M.D. Dr. DeKosky is professor and chair of the department of neurology and director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. DeKosky's clinical research includes differential diagnosis, neuroimaging and genetic risks for Alzheimer's disease and trials of new medications. His basic research centers on structural and neurochemical changes in human brains in normal aging and dementia.

Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Awards

Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Award

2008 Recipient Jun Maeda, Ph.D. Longitudinal, Quantitative Assessment of Amyloid, Neuroinflammation, and Anti-Amyloid Treatment in a Living Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease Enabled by PET.

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Best Paper in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging: New Investigator Award

2008 Recipient Sean P. Deeny, Ph.D. Exercise, APOE, and Working Memory: MEG and Behavioral Evidence for Benefit of Exercise in Epsilon4 Carriers

Tomorrow's Leader in Alzheimer's Disease Research Award

The Alzheimer's Association, the Cure Alzheimer's Fund and the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute partnered to create the Tomorrow's Leader in Alzheimer's Disease Research Award, which honors the legacies of two pioneering Alzheimer researchers – George G. Glenner, M.D., and Leon J. Thal, M.D.

The award recognizes the work of promising M.D. or Ph.D. Alzheimer's disease investigators who have made pivotal recent contributions to the goal of eliminating Alzheimer's, and awards three prizes of $100,000 each year to be used for any purpose at the discretion of the awardee.

2008 Recipients

Sterling C. Johnson, Ph.D.
Dr. Johnson is associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisc., and research scientist, GRECC, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison. His research uses brain imaging in conjunction with neuropsychological measurement to study cognitive disorders of memory and self-awareness.

Dora Marta Kovacs, Ph.D.
Dr. Kovacs is an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and associate neuroscientist, neurology services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Her research focuses on the molecular events underlying neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease.

James J. Lah, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Lah is an associate professor in the Department of Neurology, clinical core leader of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and investigator in the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. His research is driven by the goal of understanding basic, disease-causing mechanisms to improve the care of individuals with neurodegenerative disorders.

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