Director's Message

Preserving brain health across the lifespan may be the most important health priority of the 21st century; people are living longer than ever, and our brains should keep up.

At the Simpson Querrey Brain Health Institute (SQ-Brain), we are incredibly grateful for Kimberly Querrey's visionary generosity and the opportunity she has provided to address a critical unmet need and advance meaningful discoveries that will preserve brain health across the lifespan. Her support will have a generational impact and help us bridge human data with bench science to accelerate the foundational work that we have already started in the Simpson Querrey Center for Neurovascular Sciences via the Identify Mechanisms to Preserve Agility in Cognition and Thinking (IMPACT Study) and drive discoveries that keep brains healthy.  

SQ-Brain will achieve its vision through a convergence of scientific thought, and by fostering collisions of perspectives, questioning entrenched assumptions, and embracing experimentation at the boundaries of disciplines to address the unmet need of our lifetime: to ensure our brains outlast our bodies.

Farzaneh Sorond, MD, PhD
Director, SQ-Brain
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs
Dean Richard H. Young and Ellen Stearns Young Professor of Neurology in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology