Adam L. Orr, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Email: alo2012@med.cornell.edu
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Dr. Adam Orr received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Emory University under the guidance of Dr. Xiao-Jiang Li, where he studied mitochondrial transport in Huntington’s disease. He then trained with Dr. Martin Brand at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging where he explored mitochondrial reactive oxygen species production and discovered novel small molecules that selectively block mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species. He has also worked at the Gladstone Institutes in the labs of Drs. Ken Nakamura and Robert Mahley and collaborated with two start-up companies to therapeutically correct mitochondrial dysfunction in disease. He has been generously supported by the Sanofi iAward, NIA, NINDS, Brightfocus Foundation, the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, and the Daedalus Fund for Innovation from the BioPharma Alliances and Research Collaborations. He is currently Assistant Professor of Research in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Weill Cornell Medicine Helen & Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute 413 E. 69th St. New York, NY 10021

Assistant Research Professor of Neuroscience