Dr. Alexandra Touroutoglou is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She also serves as the Director of Imaging Operations of the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit. Trained in neuroscience, her work focuses on understanding the human brain in aging, superaging, and in neurodegenerative dementia.

In her recent research, she conducts clinical trials that combine brain imaging and noninvasive brain stimulation as an intervention for aging and patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. In 2016, her team was among the first research groups to identify superagers, a remarkable group of older adults with brains that refuse to age. Recently, she is using insights from superagers to develop brain stimulation treatments for memory decline in Alzheimer’s disease. She has an international reputation and won numerous awards for her work. Her findings have featured nationally and internationally by BBC, Huffington Post, The New York Times, The World Economic Forum, The Times, UK, Farmaci Halsa (Sweden), Kathimerini (Greece), Gazeta (Russia), Landbote (Switzerland), Luzerner, Zeitung (Germany). She has been featured at Harvard Gazette, NPR, Alzoforum, CNBC Make it, How We’re Wired, The Bertarelli Foundation, Exploring the Future of Brain Sciences Research Renaissance, Karen Toffler Charitable Trust. In 2023, she was invited at the United Nations to give a talk on superagers to attendees from all around the world.

Dr. Touroutoglou has served on review committees at Harvard Catalyst and National Institute of Health (NIH) panels, Israel Science Foundation, Canadian Institute of Health. In 2025, she was offered an appointment as Federal Advisory Committee member at the US Department of Veterans Affairs

Research Interests

aging; alzheimer disease; brain imaging; clinical trials; cognitive neuroscience; functional neuroimaging; memory; noninvasive brain stimulation; super aging

Honors

2024  MGH Rising Mentoring Award

2023  MGH Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholar Award

2023  International Woman in Science Award, Greek International Women Awards

2023  Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Research Education Core Scholar (MADRC REC)

2022  Fellowship from Fulbright Foundation/Institute of International Education and S. Niarchos Foundation

2020  Women in Science, The Rockefeller University

2017  “Woman of the Year” in Greece in “Expatriate” category.

2018  Fellowship from Fulbright Foundation/Institute of International Education and S. Niarchos Foundation