Martin Tolar

President and Chief Executive Officer, Alzheon

During his student days, Martin helped organize the Velvet Revolution that toppled the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia. Since then, Martin served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, where he focused on movement disorders, and as head of business development at Pfizer, before founding Alzheon – a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on brain health, memory and aging.

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