Andrea Varrone, MD, PhD

Prof. Varrone is a medical doctor and nuclear medicine physician from 1998 and completed his PhD in Functional Radioisotopic imaging at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy in 2003. From 1997 to 2000 he was Research Associate at the Neurospect Centre at Yale University and from 2001 to 2006 Research scientist at the National Research Council in Italy. In 2007, he became Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience. At the Karolinska Institutet PET-Centre, Prof. Varrone has been Responsible Nuclear Medicine Physician from 2009 and Deputy Director (after Prof. Christer Halldin) from 2013. Dr. Varrone became Senior Researcher in 2011 and Docent and Associate Professor in Nuclear Medicine in 2012. In September 2023, he is Professor of Molecular PET at Karolinska Institutet and Head of the Division of Imaging Core Facilities. Prof. Varrone´s current research is centered on the development of imaging biomarkers for the study of neurodegenerative disorders, with a specific focus on Parkinson´s disease.