Victoria Helm - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow
Mentor: Karl Deisseroth (Bioengineering and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Dr. Victor Henderson is professor of Epidemiology & Population Health and of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, with interests in neuroepidemiology and brain–behavior relations in aging and dementia. His research focuses on risk factors for cognitive aging and neurodegenerative dementia, and on interventions to help prevent and treat these disorders. He directs the NIH Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and co-directs the master’s degree program in Epidemiology & Clinical Research. He is an Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark.
Awarded in 2020
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Lei Stanley Qi (Bioengineering and Chemical & Systems Biology) and Crystal Mackall (Pediatrics – Hematology & Oncology and Medicine – Blood & Marrow Transplantation)