Beau Ances, MSc, MD, PhD, FANA, FAAN is the Daniel J Brennan MD Professor of Neurology, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis.
Following graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, he completed a master’s in Health Planning and Finance from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994 and returned to the US to complete his Ph.D. (Neurosciences) and M.D. in 2001 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
During his post-doctoral fellowship in Neuroimmunology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), his work focused on neuroinfectious diseases (including NeuroAIDS), receiving an American Federation for AIDS Research (amFAR) Fellowship.
In 2007 he was the recipient of a K23 career development award from the National Institute of Health (NIH) for his work concentrating on novel neuroimaging methods to assess changes in brain function due to HIV.
In 2008 he was recruited to Washington University in St. Louis, where he has continued to focus on HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) but has also expanded his interest in neurodegenerative diseases (especially Alzheimer’s disease (AD)). His laboratory was one of the first in the world to develop novel positron emission tomography (PET) imaging for HAND and AD.
His clinical practice includes patients with neurodegenerative diseases including HAND, AD, Cruetzfeldt-Jacob disease, Down syndrome, and paraneoplastic disorders.
He has served and led several NIH and private foundation study sections and has more recently led the NIH initiative for developing biotypes of central nervous system complications in people living with HIV.
He is an established author (with over 250 publications) and has mentored multiple undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral candidates.
