Dr. Sérgio Teixeira Ferreira is a renowned scientist and leader in Alzheimer’s disease research. He is a full professor at the UFRJ Institutes of Biophysics and Medical Biochemistry and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the National Order of Scientific Merit. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust Latin American Program in the Biomedical Sciences. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Investigator and Chairman of the Pan-American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. With a degree in chemistry, an M.S. and Ph.D. in biophysics, and a postdoctoral fellowship in physics, Dr. Ferreira’s multidisciplinary research program spans biochemistry, physical chemistry, cell biology, and—for the past 25 years— neuroscience. He has primarily focused on understanding the mechanisms of memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease, a field in which he is a pioneer in Brazil and Latin America. He currently chairs the Scientific Committee of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.