Eliezer Masliah, M.D., was named director of the Division of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in July, 2016. Before joining NIA, he held joint appointments in their departments of neurosciences and pathology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Masliah received his M.D. from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1982. He completed a postgraduate residency training in pathology at the National Institutes of Health in Mexico City in 1986. Following that, he was a fellow in neuropathology and neurodegenerative disorders at the UCSD. A prolific author with approximately 800 original research articles and 70 book chapters, Masliah has some familiarity with NIA as a past member of the NIA National Advisory Council on Aging, the NIA Neuroscience of Aging Study Section, and the Cellular and Molecular Biology of Neurodegeneration Study Section.

Neurodegenerative disorders