Marianna Cortese, MD, PhD

Dr. Cortese is a physician scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has a medical degree from the University of Heidelberg in Germany and completed a PhD in epidemiology at the University of Bergen in Norway. Her research is dedicated to identifying biomarkers, early signs, and risk factors of the onset and progression of neurologic diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), multiple sclerosis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. She has a special interest in advancing the understanding of the prodromal phase of PD that poses an opportunity for early diagnosis and intervention. Dr. Cortese has extensive experience in the conduct of large longitudinal studies and in omics analyses (metabolome, virome) using data and biological samples from the Harvard cohorts, the US military cohort, clinical trial study populations, and different Scandinavian population registries.