VUB professor and head of neurology at UZ Brussel Sebastiaan Engelborghs has been elected as an ordinary member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium (KAGB). The academy brings together the most outstanding scientists working in medicine.

Professor Engelborghs: “This selection is a token of appreciation, for which I am grateful. The Academy has many members from different medical and paramedical disciplines within medicine with whom I will be happy to exchange views on all kinds of overlaps with my own research field. That can only be fascinating and instructive!”

Professor Engelborghs is a neurologist and neurological rehabilitation specialist in neurodegenerative brain diseases leading to dementia. He is full professor of neurology at VUB, head of the neurology department at UZ Brussel and chair of the NEUR research group. He is also co-founder of UZ Brussel’s transdisciplinary memory clinic, Bru-BRAIN. With more than 400 publications to his credit, he is considered one of Europe’s leading experts in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and related brain diseases leading to dementia.

The KAGB is an institution of the Flemish Community. It is an independent interdisciplinary society that aims to bring together the most outstanding scientists in the field of medicine.

After Professor Guy Nagels, Professor Engelborghs is the second VUB neurologist to be named an ordinary member of KAGB. Professor Nagels is also a director of KAGB. Other VUB members of the Academy include Ivan Bautmans, Luc Deliens, Daniël Pipeleers and Herman Tournaye, as well as honorary members Leonard Kaufman, Ben Van Camp, André Van Steirteghem and Brigitte Velkeniers, who was president until the end of last year.

Professor Engelborghs was also recently elected president of the scientific committee on dementia and cognitive disorders of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) and president of the European Alzheimer Disease Consortium (EADC), a leading network of academic European memory clinics that meet scientific and clinical excellence criteria.