John H. MorrisonDr. Morrison is the Willard T.C. Johnson Research Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development (Neurobiology of Aging) and Professor and Co-Director of the Fishberg Research Center for Neurobiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Morrisonreceived his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Floyd Bloom, in the A.V. Davis Center for Behavioral Neurobiology at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. Throughout his training and career as an independent scientist, Dr. Morrison's research has remained focused on the cellular and neurochemical organization of cerebral cortex. His interest in the basic organization of cerebral cortex led Dr. Morrison to carry out a series of detailed investigations of the cellular pathology of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. More recently, he has also focused on sublethal age-related changes in cortical circuits that might form the basis of selective vulnerability. He has published approximately 150 articles which reflect his dual interests in basic neurobiology of cerebral cortex and human neuropathology. Dr. Morrison is on the editorial board of several international journals, has served on N.I.H. study sections, and is on numerous advisory boards, including the Board of Directors for The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR). In addition, Dr. Morrison has received several awards, including the Moore Award (1992) for the best paper on Clinicopatholic correlation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists and a Faculty Scholar Award from the Alzheimer's Disease and Related disorders Association. In addition, Dr. Morrison was the RSL Visiting Professor of Geriatric Medicine in Australia in 1993, as well as the Smith, Kline and French Visiting Professor of Neuroscience in Australia in Read More Read Less