Moussa Youdim#
| Membership Number: | 7219 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | http://Youdim.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1966 1972 Senior Research Associate, Postgraduate Medical School, University of London, London, England.
- 1972 1973 Wellcome Fellow, Unit de la Neurpharmacologie et Biochemique, College de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris, France.
- 1973 1977 M.R.C. Clinical Pharmacology Unit and University Department of Clinical Pharmacology and member of Faculty of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England.
- 1977-2009 Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 1976 1994 Chairman of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Technion lsrael Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 1983 1997 Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion lsrael institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 1984 2009 Finkelstein Professor of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Technion lsrael Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 1984 1991 Professor of Pharmacology, Uniformed Armed Forces University, Washington DC, USA.
- 1992 1994 Visiting Professor of Pharmacology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
- 1996-2009 Director of Eve Topf Neurodegenerative Diseases Center of Excellence for Teaching and Research, Technion-Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Rappaport Family Faculty of Medicine
- 1996-2009 Director of USA National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence, Technion-
- Rappaport Faculty of Medicine.
- 2009 Professor Emeritus, Technion-Rappaport Family Faculty of Medicine
- 2008-2010 Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Applied Biology and Modern Chinese
- Medicine, PolyTechnic Uinversity, Hong Kong.
- 2008-2009 Distinguished Honorary Professor, Department of Anatomy, Hong Kong University
- Hong Kong.
- 2008-present Distinguished Scientific Professor, World Central Yonsei University, Seoul, South
- Korea
- 2010-present Distinguished Honorary Professor, Materica Medica of Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
- 2010-present Distinguished Honorary Professor, Shanghai Rugin Univeristy Medical School, Shanghai, China.
- 2010-present Elected Member of Leopoldina German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina.), Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Drug development
- Multi target s drugs possessing neuroprotective and neurorestorative activities.
- Alzheimer's disease
- Molecular biology
- Development of monoamine oxidase B inhibitors as anti Parkinson drugs, selegiline, Azilect
- Parkinson's Disease
- Iron dysregulation in brain function.
- Neurodegenerative diseases
Honours and Awards
- 1974. Anna-Monika Prize in the field of neurobiology and the treatment of depressive disorders (Basel, Switzerland).
- • 1974. British Migraine Association Special Gold Medal (London, England).
- • 1978. The Homayoon (Royal) Medal (Teheran, Iran).
- • 1980. Israel National Psychobiology Center Research Achievement Prize (Jerusalem, Israel).
- • 1986. Michael Landau Research Prize (Tel Aviv, Israel).
- • 1990. Senator Burda International Prize for Parkinson’s Disease (Vienna, Austria).
- • 1991. Claudius Galenus Gold Medal Prize for Parkinson Disease, l-Deprenyl (selegiline) Drug of the Year (Berlin, Germany).
- • 1991. Deutscher Neuropharmakologie (AGNP) Prize (Nurenburg, Germany).
- • 1991. Eli Lilly Prize for Neuropsychopharmacology (Indianapolis, USA).
- • 1993. The New England Prize for Excellence In Science (Boston, USA).
- • 1991-1998 Fogarty International Scholar In Residence at Fogarty Center For Advanced Study In Human Health NIH, NIDDK and NIMH (Bethesda, U
- • 1994. Henning Anderson Prize (Stockholm, Sweden)
- • 1995. Hershel Rich Innovation Prize, Technion (Haifa, Israel)
- • 1997. “Honoree Causa” Honorary Doctor of Philosophy. Semmelweiss University Medical School (Budapest, Hungary)
- • 2000. Hershel Rich Innovation Prize, Technion, (Haifa, Israel).
- • 2006. Herschel Rich Innovation Prize discovery of TVP-1022 a cardioprotective drug. Technion (Haifa, Israel).
- • 2006. Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research, Technion, (Haifa, Israel)., Hi
- disease With Neurorestorative with drugs. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, (New York, USA).
- • 2007. Hirotaro Narabayashi Lecture. 17th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease, (Amsterdam, Holland).
- • 2007. World Federation of Neurology Award for Contribution to Parkinson’s Disease, 17th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease, (Amsterdam, Holland).
- • 2008. Distinguished Honorary Professor, University of Hong Hong, Hong Kong.
- • 2008-2010 Distinguished Chair Professor, PolyTechnic University of Hong Kong University, (Hong Kong, China)
- • 2009-2014. Distinguished Scientific Professor of Neurobiology, Yonsei World Central University Department of Neuroibology, (Seoul, South Korea).
- • 2010 European College Neuropsychopharmacology(ECNP) Life Time Achievement Neuropsychopharmacology Prize, (Amsterdam, Netherland).
- • 2010 Elected Member of Leopoldina German Academy of Sciences (Halle, Germany).
- • 2011. EMET Prize for Brain Sciences, (Jerusalem, Israel).
- • 2011. Elected A Fellow of American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, USA.
- • 2012. Giant Pioneer of Catecholamine Research Prize, 10th International Congress of Catecholamines, (Asilomar, USA).
- • 2012. CINP (International College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Pioneering Neuropsychopharmacology Prize, (Stockholm, Sweden).
- • 2012. The Arvid Carlsson Medal, (Stockholm, Sweden).
- • 2013. Elected Honorary Member of Israel Society for Neuroscience.
- • 2022. The Israel Prize In life Sciences, (Jerusalem, Israel).
- • 2023. The Maimonides Award, Rambam Hospital, (Haifa, Israel).
- • 2024. The Tel Aviv University Aufzien Center and Israel Parkinson Association Parkinson Prize, (Tel Aviv, Israel
