Per Borghammer, MD, PhD
Professor at Aarhus University
Location: Aarhus
Denmark
Per Borghammer, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Neuroscience at Aarhus University and Center Director of the Lundbeck Foundation Parkinson’s Disease Research Center (PACE). He has conducted Parkinson’s disease research since 2003, with expertise spanning multi‑modal imaging — including PET, SPECT, MRI, CT, and ultrasound — animal models, neurohistology, and epidemiology. A board‑certified specialist in Nuclear Medicine with additional training in neurology and movement disorders, he investigates fundamental mechanisms and etiological heterogeneity in neurodegeneration.
Prof. Borghammer has pioneered the Brain‑first and Body‑first model of Parkinson’s disease and has developed novel imaging approaches to characterize autonomic and synaptic pathology.
His work includes developing and validating novel PET tracers, establishing animal models that recapitulate gut‑to‑brain disease propagation, and demonstrating early peripheral Lewy pathology. He currently leads multiple large-scale longitudinal studies aimed at defining pathogenic subtypes and biomarkers to enable precision approaches to Parkinson’s disease.