John E. Lisman

John E. Lisman (died October 20, 2017) was the Zalman Abraham Kekst Chair in Neuroscience at the Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.[1] He was Professor of Biology Amplification and Switching in Signal Transduction and Memory, noted for his research on neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and Alzheimer's disease. For his research, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013.[2]

Education

Lisman graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1966. He completed graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a postdoctoral with Nobel laureate George Wald at Harvard University.[3]

References
  1. "Life Sciences Faculty - John Lisman". www.bio.brandeis.edu.
  2. "Professor John Lisman, renowned for work on molecular basis of memory, 1944-2017". BrandeisNOW.
  3. Otmakhova, Nonna A.; Otmakhov, Nikolai; Griffith, Leslie C. (27 March 2018). "Memories of John Lisman". Frontiers in Neural Circuits. doi:10.3389/fncir.2018.00024.
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