DR. NICOLAS BAZAN
OFFICIAL AMBASSADOR FOR THE ALZHEIMER'S TIE

"We have  identified brain responses to early disease stages.  The brain under imminent homeostasis disturbance does not surrender easily, it activates the production of molecular guardians of cellular integrity and function. We have uncovered sets of such protective guardians  and aim to apply this knowledge to slow down the initiation and early progression of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases."

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He has been called “a true renaissance man”: research scientist, teacher, mentor, community leader, author, patron of the arts, and entrepreneur. Born in Los Sarmientos, Tucuman, Argentina, Dr. Nicolas Bazan’s defining moment was witnessing an aunt suffer a seizure while walking him to a piano lesson when he was a young boy, putting him on the path to becoming a medical doctor and one of the world’s premier neuroscientists.

Nicolas G. Bazan, M.D., Ph.D., is the founding Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans. He is also the inaugural founder of The Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair for Research in Retinal Degeneration (1984-present) and has been appointed to the highest academic rank in the LSU System, a Boyd Professor (1994-present).