Nicholas Seyfried, MD

Emory School of Medicine
Nick Seyfried, MD, is a professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Neurology at Emory University and Associate Director of the Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease. He has more than 20 years of research experience and over 250 publications focused on neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias. Dr. Seyfried leads a multidisciplinary research team that applies proteomic and other multi-omic approaches to fundamental and translational research, with an emphasis on understanding disease mechanisms and developing biomarkers. He currently serves as director of the Biomarker Core for the Emory Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) and as a Principal Investigator of the Parkinson’s Disease Biomarkers Program (PDBP), a Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID) Center Without Walls and the recently funded TARGET-AD consortium.


