Philip De Jager

Philip is the Chief of the Division of Neuroimmunology and Deputy Director of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is a practicing clinical neuroimmunologist and molecular/statistical geneticist and cellular neuroimmunologist. He completed his MD PhD at Rockefeller University and Cornell Medical Center before finishing his clinical and specialty training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He then joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School before creating the Division of Neuroimmunology at Columbia. His interest lies in understanding and modulating the role of immune responses in human neurodegeneration using unbiased, data-driven approaches.