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Dimitri Krainc

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Dimitri Krainc is a Slovenian-born American physician-scientist who is the Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor and Chairman of the Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology and Director of the [https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/neuroscience-institute/ Feinberg Neuroscience Institute] and the Simpson Querrey Center for Neurogenetics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. After completing his medical training at the University of Zagreb, Krainc spent more than two decades at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he completed his research and clinical training and served on faculty until relocating to Northwestern University in 2013. He has dedicated his scientific career to studying molecular pathways in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration. His research group discovered how lysosomes and mitochondria interact in normal and diseased cells. This work opened a new area of cell biology for studies of diseases that involve mitochondria and lysosomes and led to pioneering design and development of targeted therapies. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award and the Outstanding Investigator award from NIH, and was elected to the Association of American Physicians, the [https://www.nationalacademies.org/ US National Academy of Medicine], the US National Academy of Inventors, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Krainc is associate editor of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. He is the principal founding scientist of two biotech companies and serves as Venture Partner at OrbiMed. Krainc is President of the American Neurological Association. Provided by Wikipedia