Professor Jeffrey
Cummings
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada,
US
Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, ScD, joined the UNLV School of Integrated
Health Sciences in 2019 as research professor within the department of
brain health. Dr. Cummings is the Joy Chambers-Grundy Professor of
Brain Science, an endowed professorship. He is the Director of the
Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, a center
devoted to using the tools of neuroscience and neurologic drug
development to transform people’s lives.
Prior to UNLV, Dr. Cummings served as founding director of the
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, and as
director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease
Research, and director of the Deane F. Johnson Center for
Neurotherapeutics, both at UCLA.
A world-renowned Alzheimer’s researcher and leader of clinical
trials, Dr. Cummings has been recognized for his scientific and
leadership contributions with the American Geriatrics Society’s
Henderson Award (2006), the national Alzheimer’s Association’s Ronald
and Nancy Reagan Research Award (2008), and the American Association
of Geriatric Psychiatry’s Distinguished Scientist Award (2010).
Dr. Cummings’ interests embrace clinical trials, developing new
therapies for brain diseases, and the interface of neuroscience and
society. Dr. Cummings has published nearly 800 articles and 44 books
devoted to neuroscience, Alzheimer’s disease, and clinical trials.
Dr. Cummings received the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive
Neurology’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), the International
Society of CNS Drug Development’s Leadership and Achievement Award and
the national Alzheimer’s Association’s Bengt Winblad Lifetime
Achievement Award (2018).
Additionally, he was featured in Gentleman’s Quarterly (June 2009)
as a “Rock Star of Science. ™” In addition to his work at UNLV, Dr.
Cummings is professor of medicine (Neurology) at Cleveland Clinic
Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and he
is principal investigator/director of the National Institute of
General Medical Sciences-funded Center for Neurodegeneration and
Translational Neuroscience.