Kenneth Kosik

Biography

Kenneth S. Kosik, M.A. M.D. was professor at the Harvard Medical School (1996–2004) then Harriman Professor and Co-Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at UCSB. Awards include Whitaker Health Sciences Award (MIT), Milton Foundation (HMS), Moore Award (Amer Assoc of Neuropathologists), Metropolitan Life Award, Derek Denny-Brown Award (Amer Neurological Assoc), Zenith and Temple Awards (Alzheimer Assoc), Ranwell Caputo Medal (Argentina), NASA Group Achievement Award, the Premio Aventis (Colombia), Potamkin Prize, fellow AAAS. He co-authored Outsmarting Alzheimer’s Disease and The Alzheimer’s Solution: How Today’s Care is Failing Millions and How We Can Do Better. His work, including the characterization in Colombia of the largest family in the world with genetic Alzheimer’s has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, BBC, CNN, PBS and CBS 60 Minutes. His 2016 UCSB commencement address was archived at the Graduation Wisdom Best Commencement Speeches.

Research

The Kosik lab intends to create an intellectual setting conducive to the exploration of fundamental biological processes, particularly those related to the brain and its evolution.