Dr. Philip Scheltens is Professor of Cognitive Neurology and the Director of the Alzheimer Center at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. He is also the initiator and Vice President of Deltaplan Dementia Netherlands. In 2011 Dr. Scheltens was appointed scientific director at the Pearlstring Institute and elected a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he is now a member of the Board. He is an Honorary Professor of Neurology at University College London. His main clinical and research interests are Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, magnetic resonance imaging, PET imaging and biomarkers for disease detection and early diagnosis. He is active in the field of biomarkers and clinical trials and has been the national Primary Investigator for many trials, including phase 1-3 international multicenter clinical trials.