Robert Thorne Email and Phone Number

Biographical Highlights• Neuroscientist and KOL who has conducted research for over three decades on neurophysiology, CNS structure, and the CNS barriers in order to identify how best to deliver proteins, oligonucleotides, and gene therapy vectors to the brain• Teacher who has led class-based, laboratory, and virtual courses and given guest lectures at the University of Washington, New York University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota (current) and Stanford University (current); Award-winning instructor while a Professor at UW-Madison• Past experience as primary mentor for over 15 trainees and an opponent or thesis committee member for more than 20 additional doctoral candidates• Reviewer with recurring advisory/grant review roles for the NIH, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Lundbeck Foundation, and several Parkinson’s Disease Foundations (MJFF, PDF)• Leader, organizer, and SAB member for multiple major international initiatives involving the CNS barriers and drug delivery to the brain over the past 15+ years• Joined Denali Therapeutics as a Denali Fellow in 2018 after over 10 years on the faculty at NYU School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison• Heads and sets the vision for Denali’s growing Postdoctoral Program and expanding STEM outreach program; Acting Vice President for Denali's SACNAS Chapter, the third such professional chapter in the United States• Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota since 2019• Served as the Vice President of the International Brain Barriers Society (IBBS) since 2017 and set to become IBBS President in 2023• Several additional leadership roles over the past 10-15 years, including chair (2016) and vice-chair (2014) of the ‘Barriers of the CNS’ Gordon Research Conference, SAB/organizing committee member for six different International Conferences on Cerebral Vascular Biology, co-chair of an AAPS-IBBS Workshop on CNS drug delivery (2019), and principal organizer for the inaugural ‘Drug Delivery to the Brain’ Keystone Symposium (2023)