Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, FANA
Gladstone Institutes/University of California, San Francisco
Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, FANA, is director of the Center for Systems and Therapeutics and the Taube/Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at Gladstone Institutes, and professor of neurology and physiology at University of California, San Francisco. He invented robotic microscopy, a powerful cellular imaging technology used to study mechanisms of neurodegeneration. His work integrates robotic microscopy with human induced pluripotent stem cell models to investigate diseases including Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and frontotemporal dementia. For his research on Huntington disease, he received a Javits Award. He has also received the SLAS Innovation Award for applying artificial intelligence to image analysis and robotic control, the Essey Award from the California ALS Research Network and the Leslie Gehry Brenner Prize from the Hereditary Disease Foundation. He serves as chair of the External Review Board for DZNE and on the External Advisory Board of the Functional Genomics Consortium for Alzheimer’s Disease and is on the editorial boards of Molecular Neuropsychiatry and the Journal of Huntington’s Disease.