Guojun Bu, Ph.D., is the Mary Lowell Leary Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville and an Associate Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer?s Disease Research Center. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic in 2010, he was a Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Bu received his B.S. degree in biology from Beijing Normal University and his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Virginia Tech. He is a leader in the field of apoE and apoE receptors, which play critical roles in brain lipid transport, synaptic function, and A? metabolism in Alzheimer?s disease. His laboratory is also exploring the pathogenic mechanisms of several other Alzheimer risk genes including TREM2 and ABCA7. Dr. Bu has received several honors and awards including the Zenith Fellows Award from the Alzheimer?s Association and the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration.