Claudio Soto

Dr. Soto is the Huffington Distinguished University Chair, Professor of Neurology and Director of the Mitchell Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Brain Disorders at The University of Texas at Houston. For the past 30 years, he has been studying neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and prion diseases and has made several important discoveries both to the basic science understanding of these diseases and to the translation of this knowledge into novel strategies for treatment and early diagnosis. He invented and developed the Seed Amplification Assay (SAA) for ultra-sensitive detection of misfolded proteins. Dr. Soto has published more than 250 papers, some in highly prestigious scientific journals, which have been cited more than 38,000 times (H-index 96).