Arthur W. Toga, PhD, is Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering, and director of the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Dr. Toga’s research focuses on neurodegenerative disease, specifically Alzheimer’s disease. He has pioneered some of the most widely used informatics systems in the world (e.g., IDA and GAAIN), supporting more than 150 multisite trials in Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. His interdisciplinary work led to the creation of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), which he also directs and which is one of the most advanced multidisciplinary neurological research centers. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Michael J. Fox Foundation, among others, as well as industry partners, LONI houses one of the largest computing facilities dedicated to the field and one of the largest brain image repositories in the world.
He is an author or co-author of more than 1,100 peer-reviewed publications, over 1,100 abstracts, and 80 book chapters and books, among them Brain Mapping: The Methods. He is the founding editor of the journal NeuroImage. Dr. Toga has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the Pioneer in Medicine Award, the Smithsonian Award for Scientific Innovation, and the Giovanni DiChiro Award for Outstanding Scientific Research. He holds the Ghada Irani Chair in Neuroscience and has been ranked among the world’s top researchers on the AD Scientific Index, named one of the Top 200 Best Scientists in Neuroscience by Research.com, and listed for many years as a Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.
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