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Investigator Profile

Apostolos Georgopoulos, MD, PhD

Positions: Director, Brain Sciences Center, Minneapolis VA
Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
Professor, Neurology, University of Minnesota
Education: MD, PhD University of Athens
Contact Information: apostolos.georgopoulos@va.gov
Research Interests: My research focuses on, but is not limited to, experimental and theoretical neuroscience, including studies in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetoencephalograpy (MEG), computational neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and, more recently, immunogenetic epidemiology. During the past few years, I have led a new line of research in studying the role of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) health and disease, including healthy brain aging, Gulf War illness, and associations with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in epidemiologic studies. More recently, I have been examining in silico the association of HLA with antigens of pathogens putatively involved in dementia, focusing on the human herpes virus and its possible association of HLA Class I and II alleles to the glycoproteins of 9 Human Herpes Viruses. Finally, we have been investigating in silico the relations between HLA alleles and SARS-CoV-2 in an effort to contribute to the design of vaccines to be effective in multiple variants.
Publications: Full bibliography on PubMed
VA Research Topics: Neurology & Neurobiology; Gulf War Veterans
MeSH Key Words: Humans; Magnetoencephalography; Cognitive Neuroscience; Brain; Aging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Cognition; Dementia; HLA Antigens; Histocompatibility Antigens Class II; Electrophysiology
Professional Networking: ResearchGate | Google Scholar
Links: University of Minnesota profile | Brain Sciences Center profile

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