Henry Engler

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Engler and the second or maternal family name is Golovchenko.

Henry Willy Engler Golovchenko, PhD (born 1946 in Paysandú) is a Uruguayan neuroscientist.[1]

Student at the University of the Republic, he obtained his BA-level degree in 1970.[1]

During the late 1960s and early 1970s he was a prominent member of the Tupamaros. For that reason he spent 13 years in jail during the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay.

Later he emigrated to Sweden,[2] where he obtained his PhD at the University of Uppsala.[1] In 2002 he injected for the first time in healthy volunteers and Alzheimer´s patients the substance PIB (Pittsburgh compound B) to detect amyloid plaques in the brain. The results were presented at the World Alzheimer´s Conference in Stockholm.

References

  1. 1 2 3 CV of Dr. Henry Engler
  2. ↑ "Sweden, the Uruguay of the North". EL PAIS. 8 September 2013. (Spanish)
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