Laura Fratiglioni

Laura Fratiglioni, MD, PhD
Professor

Director of the Aging Research Center,

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
www.ki-su-arc.se

ARC, Gävlegatan 16,
S -113 30 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel +46 8 690 5818, +46 70 773 5818
Fax + 46 8 690 5954
E-mail: mlaura.fratiglioni@ki.se

Laura Fratiglioni, currently employed as professor at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, is the Director of the Aging Research Center (ARC), KI. She is a medical doctor, specialised both in Neurology and Epidemiology. She is involved in scientific, clinical and pedagogical commitments.

Her major research field is Epidemiology of Neurodegenerative diseases in the elderly. Specifically, Laura Fratiglioni and her group are involved in the following research lines:

1. Risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, including genetic, biological and environmental factors;
2. Natural history of the dementias;
3. Mild cognitive impairment and early detection of AD and VaD;
4. Multimorbidity and disability in the elderly.

She is the scientific coordinator of the Kungsholmen Project on Aging and Dementia, co-investigator of the project” Harmony: a twin study on dementia”, and the principal investigator of The SNACKungsholmen population study.

Her scientific production has led to 159 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 13 chapters in edited volumes, and 7 reports.

Under her supervision, 9 PhD students and two postdoc had completed their studies since 1996; and at the moment she is supervising six students. She serves regularly as reviewer to several clinical and epidemiological journals. She has held grants regularly as a principal investigator since 1996 at several of the major research councils in Sweden. She has been awarded by the Italian Neurological Association with Luigi Amaducci Award.

1990-1993

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1996-1999

2000-present

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2001-2005

2001-2006

2007-

Assistant Professor, Neurological Clinic, University Hospital of Florence, Italy
PhD position, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Assistant Professor (“överläkare”), Florence University Hospital, Italy

Research scientist position at the Division of Geriatric Medicine, KI

Research leader, Stockholm Gerontology Research Center

Lecturer position at the Neurotec Dept, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Professor at the Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet

Head of the Division of Geriatric Epidemiology, Neurotec Dpt, KI

Co-Director of Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet

Director of Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet

Research project leadership

1982-1985

1983-1986

1984-1986

1998-2000

1998-2001

2002-2004

1996-present

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1999-present

1999-present

2005-present

Co-PI of the project ”A community-based study on TIA”, Florence

Co-investigator in ”Multicenter study of Multiple Sclerosis”, Italy

Co-PI of the project ”Multicenter case-control study of AD in Italy”

Italian coordinator in the EU project ”Risk factors for AD: a collaborative re-analysis of case-control studies”

Swedish coordinator the EU project ”Monitoring neurological diseases of the elderly in Europe”

Responsible for the Epidemiology in the project “Dementia, a systematic review” promoted by The Swedish Council on Technology assessment in Health Care

Scientific coordinator of the Kungsholmen Project on Aging and Dementia

Co-investigator and member of the Steering committee of the project ”Harmony: a twin study on dementia”

Principal investigator of The SNACKungsholmen population study

Member of the steering group in the national study SNAC

Core leader and member of the Steering committee in the Swedish national project “Swedish Brain Power”

Publications

Citations

159 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 13 chapters in edited volumes, 7 reports.

More than 5000 citations by September 2006

Awards

Medical Research Council-Sweden – winner of 4 years position as PhD student (2000-2003)

Medical Research Council-Sweden – winner of a 2+2 years position as Research Scientist (1996-1999)

Award “In memory of Prof Luigi Amaducci” Italian Society of Neurology, 2001

Course and meeting organization

Organizer of the following national congresses in Italy: ”III, V, VIII National Congress of Neuroepidemiology”, Milano1982, Pavia 1987, Genova1994

Organizer of the following international conferences: ”Seventh International Conference on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders”, Washington, July 2000; and “Eighth International Conference on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders”, Stockholm, July 2002

Organizer of several symposia at International conferences

Organizer of the annual PhD course “Applying epidemiological methods in brain aging research”

MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS (since year 2002)