Bruce Lamb

Background

About Bruce Lamb

Dr. Lamb received his bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania prior to a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. In 1996, Dr. Lamb was recruited to Case Western Reserve University, where he rose from Assistant to Associate Professor. He joined the Cleveland Clinic in 2005 and rose to full Professor in 2011. In 2016, Dr. Lamb joined the Indiana University School of Medicine as Director of the Stark Neurosciences Research Institute. Dr. Lamb’s laboratory works on the basic and translational science of Alzheimer’s disease, with a focus on; animal models of Alzheimer’s disease (including Director of the IU/Jax/Pitt NIH-Funded Model Organism Development and Evaluation for Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease program, MODEL-AD), discovery of new therapeutic targets (including Co-Director of the NIH-Funded IUSM/Purdue Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery Center), the role immune pathways in the development and progression of Alzheimer's disease and the the role of traumatic brain injury as an environmental modifier for the development of Alzheimer’s pathologies. In 2020, Dr. Lamb became Co-Director of the Indiana University Health Neuroscience Institute, that combines clinical care, research and education across all areas of neuroscience. In addition, Dr. Lamb is actively involved in advocacy for increased research funding for the disease. Dr. Lamb has received multiple honors including the National Civic Award and the Zaven Khachaturian Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer’s Association and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.