Professor, Head of Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Professor Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD is the leading authority in research on the etiology of Alzheimer's disease. In 1994 in New York, he proposed as first ischemic etiology of Alzheimer's disease. He held a position in the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, at the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, USA, and at the Max-Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, Germany. Currently, he conducts research in the Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.