Michela Gallagher

Biography

Michela Gallagher, PhD, founded AgeneBio in 2008 and  serves as a Scientific Advisor. She is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Psychological and Brain Science and heads the Neurogenetics and Behavior Center at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her PhD in Physiological Psychology from University of Vermont.She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has spent 20 years researching memory and learning as well as the neurobiology of aging, having published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, and brings this expertise to the company as it seeks to advance discoveries to address amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. She is the 2014 recipient of the Society for Neuroscience, Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2010 received the American Psychological Association, D.O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. She was also the recipient of a Senior Research Scientist Award from National Institute of Mental Health (1990-1999), a Freedom to Discover Award from the Bristol-Myers Foundation (2003-2008), and Senior Scientist Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation (2008-2012). She has served the on Boards of Scientific Counselors at the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Aging and currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stanley Center at the Broad Institute. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins in 1997, She rose through the faculty ranks at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was the Kenan Professor of Psychology.

Research Interest

amnestic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease, brain science, neurogenetics, neurobiology, aging, physiology, psychology