Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: Alison Goate

Alison Goate has been named chair of the department of genetics and genomics sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, effective Jan. 1, 2021.

Goate is the Willard T.C. Johnson research professor of neurogenetics and a professor of genetics and genomic science, neuroscience, and neurology. Her research focuses on genetic risk factors of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

She came to Mount Sinai in 2015 as founding director of the Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Goate holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.