Alexandre Vamvakides, Ph.D.
Scientific Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Vamvakides has spent 30 years in research, focusing on the therapeutic/pharmacological areas of nootropes, anti-neurodegenerative (anti-Alzheimer’s), anti-epileptic, anti-depressive and prototype molecules. The author of 80+ published scientific papers, he has worked at the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale in Paris, France, University of Athens (Greece), Ciba-Geigy (Basel, Switzerland), Sanofi (Montpellier, France), and many other European research labs for the discovery and development of new concepts in the therapeutic areas of CNS, oncology and inflammatory diseases.

Mark Smith, Ph.D., FRCPath
Scientific Advisory Board
A leading researcher and professor in the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Dr. Smith is one of the world’s most cited researchers in the fields of Alzheimer’s disease, free radical biology and neuroscience and behavior. He is Executive Director of the American Aging Association and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Dr. Smith has authored over 600 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and book chapters. He has received a number of notable scientific awards in recognition of his scientific research, which is currently focused on investigating the pathological mechanisms underlying selective neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases, notably Alzheimer’s disease.

Tangui Nicolas Maurice, Ph.D.
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Maurice has spent 15 years in the field of neurosciences, including behavioral and molecular neuropharmacology, sigma receptors, neuropeptides, neurosteroids, neurotrophic factors, normal/pathological aging models for Alzheimer’s and related disorders, and behavioral phenotyping of rodent models. Dr. Maurice is a researcher at the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) U710 at Montpellier. He has also held research positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INSERM U336, the department of neuropsychopharmacology and hospital pharmacy at Meijo University (Nagoya, Japan), and Jouveinal Research Institute (Fresnes, France).

Jean-Jacques Bourguignon, Ph.D.
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Bourguignon has 30 years experience in medicinal chemistry, including expertise in drug design and optimization as well as organic and physical chemistry and is currently a Research Director (CNRS) at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Strasbourg-Illkrich, France. His background also includes work as a senior scientist at the Center of Neurochemistry (Strasbourg, France) and post-doctoral fellow with the department of chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Dr. Bourguignon holds a Ph.D. in polymer physical chemistry from the Université Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg.