Nikolaos Robakis, PhD

Dr. Robakis is A.P. Slaner Professor for Neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Director of the Center for Molecular Biology and Genetics of Neurodegeneration at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) since 1994. He is a pioneer in Alzheimer’s Disease research, as his laboratory was among the first groups to clone the APP gene. He has been working on the molecular biology and genetics of AD for more than 20 years.

Dr. Robakis joined MSSM in 1987 as an Associate Professor of Molecular Neurobiology in the Department of Psychiatry. Prior to MSSM, Dr. Robakis worked for Hoffman-La Roche, Inc and earned his PhD degree at the New York University. Dr. Robakis received numerous awards, including the Zenith Award of the Alzheimer’s Association, the McKnight Neuroscience Development award for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Helenic Medical Association of New York, the T.L.L. Temple Foundation Award of the Alzheimer’s Association and the MERIT Award of the NIH.