Jaime Grutzendler MD

Associate Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology; Director, Yale Center for Experimental Neuroimaging (YCEN)

Biographical Info

Dr. Grutzendler obtained his MD at Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia where he was born and raised. He completed a medical internship in Internal Medicine and a residency in Neurology at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. This was followed by a combined clinical and research fellowship in the Alzheimer Disease Research Center and the Department of Neurobiology at Washington University and further neurobiology research training at the Skirball Institute of New York University. He was a member of the Neurology faculty at Northwestern University in Chicago prior to joining Yale in 2011.
Dr. Grutzendler's clinical interests focus on neurodegenerative disorders with special emphasis in dementias such as Alzheimer's disease.
His research laboratory studies the pathogenesis of Vascular and Alzheimer's dementias. Specifically Dr. Grutzendler uses optical imaging techniques to better understand the dynamic behavior of neurons, endothelium, astrocytes, pericytes, microglia and oligodendrocytes, how these cells interact with each other and how interactions are disrupted in vascular and neurodegenerative disorders.

Education & Training

M.D.

Universidad Javeriana School of Medicine (1991)

Resident

Washington Univeristy in St. Louis, Neurology (1995 - 1998)

Research Fellow

Washington University in St. Louis, Neurobiology (1998 - 2000)

Clinical Fellow

Washington University in St. Louis, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (1998 - 2000)

Postdoctoral Fellow

Skirball Institute/New York University, Molecular Neurobiology Program (2001 - 2003)

Intern

Washington University in St. Louis, Internal Medicine (1994 - 1995)

Board Certification

Neurology, Board Certified  (2003)

Honors & Recognition

• NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award
  (2010)
• McCance Yale Scholar
  (2011)
• New Scholar Award
  Ellison Foundation (2004)
• Brain and Immunoimaging Award
  Dana Foundation (2004)
• Elected Member
  American Society for Clinical Investigation (2012)