William E. Klunk

William E. Klunk
William E. Klunk
Education	Shippensburg University B.S. Washington University in St. Louis M.D. Ph.D.
Awards	MetLife Foundation Award (2004); Potamkin Prize (2008); Reagan Institute Award (2009)
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of Pittsburgh

William E. Klunk is an American psychiatrist and neurologist currently the Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology and Levidow-Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Disorders at University of Pittsburgh.^[1]^[2]

He is one of the leading pioneers for in vivo amyloid imaging, which helps detect and quantify pathological protein aggregations in the brain of Alzheimer's patients.^[3]^[4]

References

^ "William E. Klunk". pitt.edu. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
^ "William E. Klunk". upmc.com. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
^ "William E. Klunk, MD, PhD". UPMC | Life Changing Medicine. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
^ Rabinovici, G. D.; Jagust, W. J. (2009). "Amyloid imaging in aging and dementia: testing the amyloid hypothesis in vivo". Behavioural Neurology. 21 (1): 117–128. doi:10.1155/2009/609839. ISSN 1875-8584. PMC 2804478. PMID 19847050.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

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[1] "William E. Klunk". pitt.edu. Retrieved May 2, 2017.

[2] "William E. Klunk". upmc.com. Retrieved May 2, 2017.

[3] "William E. Klunk, MD, PhD". UPMC | Life Changing Medicine. Retrieved 2019-05-28.

[4] Rabinovici, G. D.; Jagust, W. J. (2009). "Amyloid imaging in aging and dementia: testing the amyloid hypothesis in vivo". Behavioural Neurology. 21 (1): 117–128. doi:10.1155/2009/609839. ISSN 1875-8584. PMC 2804478. PMID 19847050.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

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