Bruce Lamb is executive director of the Paul and Carole Stark Neurosciences Research Institute and Roberts Family Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research at the IU School of Medicine. His research has spanned a wide range of areas in neurodegeneration, including the development and use of animal models to study the biology of Alzheimer’s disease and the role of neuroinflammation and microglia in Alzheimer’s disease. During his tenure, the institute has become a highly productive research program, garnered international recognition for Indiana University and advanced our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease. Lamb has successfully taken on critical leadership roles at both Indiana University and at the international level. Dr. Lamb has received numerous awards and honors including the Jennifer B. Langston Award from the Cleveland Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association and the National Civic Award and Zaven Khachaturian Lifetime Achievement Award form the National Alzheimer's Association, is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the National Alzheimer's Association.