Antonius M VanDongen

Dr Antonius VanDongen is an Associate Professor at Duke University, USA. After completing his PhD in Biophysics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he moved to Texas, USA, to work at Baylor College of Medicine. He started working at Duke University in 1992 and at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. His extensive background spans pharmacology, electrophysiology, molecular and cellular neurobiology, and computational neuroscience. He is also interested in drug development, and his current research interests include the role of the Arc (activity-regulated cytoskeleton) gene in Alzheimer’s disease and the development of related therapeutics.