Todd Golde

Background

About Todd Golde

see https://directory.ufhealth.org/golde-todd for access to my CV and online bio I am Director of the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute (MBI) at the University of Florida where I oversee, champion, and facilitate our neuroscience and neuromedicine research programs at an enterprise level. Over 150 faculty are members of the MBI, and the annual extramural grant portfolio for neuroscience research now totals over $75M/year, representing a >2 fold increase since 2010. I have generated a vision for the MBI that is based on programmatic translational science and an Institute without walls. I was previously the founding director of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease at UF (2010-16), and prior to that appointment served as Chair of Mayo Clinic’s Department of Neuroscience. In these roles, as well as in my previous positions as Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Mayo Clinic Florida and member of the Mayo Foundation Research Committee, I have gained substantial administrative and research strategic planning experience in two very different organizations. At both, I have promoted and implemented a vision whereby wet-bench laboratories are linked to patient based research activities, enabling ongoing interaction between clinical and basic investigators. The success of the faculty in these groups has been impressive, in terms of both scientific impact and per-investigator funding. Further, at UF I have reached out to build collaborative teams spanning multiple colleges not only within UF but also with five other Florida Institutions.