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After completing undergraduate training in Chemistry and Zoology at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln William C. Mobley received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University. Dr. Mobley trained in Pathology and Pediatrics at the Stanford University Hospital and completed a residency and fellowship in Neurology at Johns Hopkins University Hospital where he also was Chief Resident in Pediatric Neurology. In 1985 he joined the faculty of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine where he rose to the rank of Professor of Neurology Pediatrics and the Neuroscience Program and served as the Director of Child Neurology. In 1991 he was named Derek Denny Brown Scholar of the American Neurological Association. From 1997 to 2005 he served as the Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University and he holds the John E. Cahill Family Endowed Chair. He was recently appointed Director of the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford. His laboratory studies the signaling biology of neurotrophic factors in the normal nervous system and in animal models of neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease Down's syndrome and peripheral neuropathy. He is the recipient of both the Zenith Award and the Temple Award from the Alzheimer's Association and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was chosen to receive the Cotzias Award of the American Academy of Neurology for 2004. Dr. Mobley is Past President of the Association of University Professors of Neurology and is President of The Professors of Child Neurology. He was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. | 