William W. Seeley (born 1971) is an American

neurologist Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...

. He is a Professor of Neurology and Pathology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center at the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It con ...

(UCSF). He leads the Selective Vulnerability Research Lab at UCSF. He is a 2011

MacArthur Fellow The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

Life

Seeley graduated from Brown University in 1994, and from the

UCSF School of Medicine The UCSF School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California, San Francisco and is located at the base of Mount Sutro on the Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland, it is the ol ...

. He was an internal medicine intern at UCSF and a neurology resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.http://ind.ucsf.edu/aboutus/faculty/seeleyw He is on the editorial board of Acta Neuropathologica and Neuroimage Clinical. He is also Director of the UCSF Neurodegenerative Disease Brain Bank. His research concerns regional vulnerability in

neurodegenerative A neurodegenerative disease is caused by the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons, in the process known as neurodegeneration. Such neuronal damage may ultimately involve cell death. Neurodegenerative diseases include amyotrophic ...

disease such as frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

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Selective Vulnerability Research Lab
at UCSF * American neuroscientists MacArthur Fellows University of California, San Francisco alumni UCSF School of Medicine faculty Brown University alumni 1971 births Living people {{US-academic-bio-stub