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The American Academy of Neurology awarded the 2011 Potamkin Prize to Dr. Dennis Dickson, a neuropathologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida, and the Robert E. Jacoby Professor for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.
The Potamkin Prize honors researchers for their efforts advancing the understanding of Pick’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
The $100,000 prize is for continuing research and is shared evenly between Dickson and Drs. Eva Maria Mandelkow and Eckhard Mandelkow of the Max Planck Unit for Structural Molecular Biology in Germany.
The Potamkin Prize was awarded to Dickson in recognition of his wide-ranging neuropathologic research in neurodegenerative disorders, in particular studies on tau protein, which is also the research focus of the Mandelkows.
“I am honored to receive this award, but it is an award that would not have been possible without the many contributions from my mentors and colleagues at Mayo Clinic in Florida and Rochester and at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York,” said Dickson.
Dickson directs the brain bank at Mayo Clinic in Florida, based in Southside, and is responsible for neuropathologic studies of brains to identify and describe changes that occur because of Alzheimer’s and other neurological disorders.
The Potamkin Prize is made possible by a donation to the American Academy of Neurology by the Potamkin family of New York, Philadelphia and Miami.