David Russell has anchored the clinical research program at our New Haven Research Clinic since joining in 2007, and serves as Senior Medical Director for Perceptive (formerly named Invicro). Dr. Russell is a Neurologist with a specialty in neurodegenerative diseases, including movement disorders like Parkinson’s
Diseases and dementia illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s Disease. In addition to helping push forward research against these terrible diseases (he has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed research journals), he also believes in sharing his wealth of clinical experience with area physicians, patient support and advocacy groups, research-sponsoring pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and in our New Haven Clinic.
He has become a sought-after expert in clinical trial design, biomarker development, the utilisation of PET imaging to drive therapeutic
development, and recruitment strategies. He has served and continues to serve as the Principal Investigator on numerous clinical trials from Phase 1 through 4, both for neurological diseases and also for non-neurological diseases, where Perceptive’s expertise and capabilities can assist in driving development in those disease areas. He is proud of having served an important role from the early phase through the late phase clinical trials for many of the ground-breaking therapies and hopeful therapies in trials or clinical practice today.
He obtained both his medical degree and a PhD in molecular biology from Cornell University and the Sloan-Kettering Institute. He performed his residency at Yale, where he served as Chief Resident of Neurology. He then joined the full-time faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, and now continues as Voluntary Faculty there. In addition to being the clinical medical lead in New Haven, he is a member of numerous national and international scientific and professional societies and serves as a scientific expert within Perceptive.