Alberto Ascherio

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Alberto Ascherio

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health & Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School

Dr. Ascherio graduated in medicine at the University of Milan in 1978 and practiced medicine and public health in Latin America and Africa for several years before moving to Boston, USA, where he became Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He was awarded honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Bergen, delivered the Falch Lecture in 2023, and he is co-recipient of a life sciences 2025 Breakthrough Prize for discovering that the Epstein-Barr virus causes multiple sclerosis.
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The Epstein-Barr virus causes multiple sclerosis – are herpes viruses a hidden cause of other neurodegenerative diseases?
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