AAIC Award Recipients Recognized at 2025 Meeting
At the 2025 meeting of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), the organization recognized several award recipients for their contributions to the field across research, neuroimaging, mentorship, leadership, and philanthropy.
The organization presented 3 AAIC Lifetime Achievement Awards in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, each named after the original Co-Founders of the AAIC and recognizing the significant contributions of senior investigators who have been dedicated to the fields of Alzheimer disease (AD) and dementia throughout their careers.
Bart de Strooper, MD, PhD of the University of Leuven, Belgium and University College London, United Kingdom, was awarded the Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research. Dr. Strooper was recognized for his research into the underlying mechanisms of AD.
Mary Sano, PhD of the Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, was awarded the Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research. Dr. Sano was recognized for her research into the impacts of disease on cognition, as well as interventions to improve cognition.
Clifford R. Jack, Jr., MD of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, was awarded the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research. Dr. Jack was recognized for his contributions to brain imaging to investigate AD and related disorders.
Additional award recipients include:
Katrin Andreasson, MD of Stanford University, Stanford, CA, who received the Inge Grundke–Iqbal Award for Alzheimer’s Research.
Donna M. Wilcock, MD of the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, who received the Bill Thies Award for Distinguished Service to ISTAART.
Bruce Lamb, PhD of the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, who received the Zaven Khachiaturian Award.
The Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which was awarded the Jerome H. Stone Philanthropy Award for Alzheimer’s Research.
Christos Davatzikos, PhD of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, who received the 2025 de Leon Prize in Neuroimaging for a Senior Scientist.
Hironobu Endonzmeier, MD, PhD and Maiko Ono, PhD of the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan, who each received the 2025 de Leon Prize in Neuroimaging for a Junior Scientist.
Karly Cody, PhD of Stanford University, Stanford, CA, who received the 2025 de Leon Prize in Neuroimaging for a Trainee.
Coverage of the awards presented at the 2024 meeting of the AAIC are available on the Practical Neurology website.