Hilal Lashuel

Hilal is a Professor of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar and an Emeritus Professor at EPFL. His PhD and postdoctoral work focused on biophysical dissection of amyloid formation by transthyretin, amyloid-β, and α-synuclein under the mentorship of Prof. Jeffery Kelly (Scripps Research Institute) and Prof. Peter Lansbury (Harvard Medical School). His honors include the Takreem Foundation Scientific & Technological Achievement Award, the Kuwait Prize in Fundamental Sciences (Biological Sciences), the H. Martin Friedman Distinguished Lectureship at Brooklyn College (CUNY), and the EPFL School of Life Sciences Ambition Award.