Andrea Varrone, MD, PhD, has been a specialist in nuclear medicine since 1998 and completed his PhD in functional radioisotopic imaging at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy in 2003. From 1997 to 2000, he was a research associate at the Neurospect Centre at Yale University, and from 2001 to 2006 he was a research scientist at the National Research Council in Italy.

In 2007, Dr. Varrone became assistant professor at the Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience. At the Karolinska Institutet PET-Centre, Dr. Varrone has been a nuclear medicine physician since 2009 and deputy director (after Prof. Christer Halldin) since 2013. He became senior researcher in 2011 and docent and associate professor in nuclear medicine in 2012.

Dr. Varrone´s current research is centered on the use of high-resolution PET and focused on methodological advancements in PET quantification and on the application of PET for the identification of early biomarkers of motor/non-motor symptoms and disease progression in PD.