doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place citizenship image_size field work_institutions birth_date known_for residence article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
michael landon , ph.d 19 december 2010 bainbridge township , geauga county , ohio leicester , united kingdom united states-british 220px neurology , neuroscience , pathology sandoz -- 1992 -rrb- , case western reserve university -lrb- 1992 forschungsinstitut -- present -rrb- -lrb- now novartis -rrb- , -lrb- 1990 15 august 1965 discoveries other diseases concerning pathogenic mechanisms in alzheimer 's disease and cleveland , ohio mark a. smith
 george perry , ph.d. . mark a. smith , ph.d. , frcpath , faaas hatfield -rrb- and university of nottingham -lrb- ph.d. , 1990 -rrb- college , durham university -lrb- b.sc. , 1986
mark a. smith

mark anthony smith -lrb- august 15 , 1965 -- december 19 , 2010 -rrb- was a professor of pathology at case western reserve university in cleveland , ohio , where he also served as the director of basic science research at the university memory and aging center .
smith served as editor-in chief of `` journal of alzheimer 's disease '' and also sat on the editorial board of over 20 leading journals including `` science translational medicine '' , `` discovery medicine '' , `` journal of neurochemistry '' , journal of pathology and `` the american journal of pathology '' .
he is recognized in the field of alzheimer 's disease research particularly for his work on oxidative stress , mitochondria dysfunction and cell cycle re-entry and , with a h-index of 73 and over 800 peer-review articles and reviews that have received over 21,000 citations , he was named as one of the top alzheimer 's disease researchers in the world , one of the top 100 most-cited scientists in neuroscience & behavior and one of the top 25 scientists in free radical research .
his many honors included the jordi folch-pi award from the american society for neurochemistry , the asip outstanding investigator award from the american society for investigative pathology and being elected as a fellow of the royal college of pathologists , a fellow of the american aging association and a fellow of american association for the advancement of science , the world 's largest scientific organization .
he had been awarded the goudie lecture & medal of the pathological society but died before he could deliver the lecture .
