The Alzheimer's pioneer talks about why he's optimistic
+ READ ARTICLE“I always teach my students and trainees to think about what science is going to be in fifty or a hundred years from now,” said Rudolph Tanzi, the Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Tanzi is a pioneer in the field of Alzheimer’s research, and has spent most of his career studying a disease that affects 5.3 million Americans. In the mid-1980s, he was among the first researchers to discover the APP gene, which would later be identified as the first known Alzheimer’s gene.
Read Maria Shriver on Rudolph Tanzi for the 2015 TIME 100.