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Accolades & Honors

William E. Klunk received the 2017 Zaven Khachaturian Award from the Alzheimer鈥檚 Association

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William E. Klunk has been honored by the Alzheimer鈥檚 Association with the 2017 Zaven Khachaturian Award. Klunk is a distinguished professor of psychiatry and neurology and the Levidow-51精品视频sburgh Foundation Chair in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Disorders.

He is recognized for his many contributions to Alzheimer鈥檚 research, including his influential work on amyloid imaging in humans, which was cited in Discover Magazine鈥檚 100 Top Science Stories of 2002. His team's benchmark 2004 paper in amyloid imaging was awarded Best Neuroimaging Paper from 2002-04 by the Alzheimer鈥檚 Association and was cited by Nature Medicine as No. 1 among 鈥渒ey papers in the field鈥 of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease research from 2003 to 2006.