About me

Dr. Selkoe obtained his bachelor’s degree at Columbia University in 1965 and his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Virginia in 1969. He then studied basic neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health and at Harvard Medical School, and trained as a neurologist in the Harvard Longwood Residency in Neurology. Dr. Selkoe established an independent laboratory researching Alzheimer’s disease and related basic biological questions in 1978. He advanced through the faculty ranks at Harvard Medical School to become Professor of Neurology in 1990. In 2000, he was named the Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases.