Elizabeth Head, M.A., Ph.D., is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where she also directs the Experimental Pathology Program. A neuroscientist trained at the University of Toronto, she is a leading researcher on the link between Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease and serves as principal or co-principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded research and training grants. She has published extensively in leading journals, including The Lancet Neurology, Nature Neuroscience, and Brain, and is an investigator with the Alzheimer’s Biomarker Consortium–Down Syndrome.
