Biography:
Andrzej Stanislaw Cieplak obtained his PhD at the Polish Academy of Science in 1977 for a partial synthesis of a modified steroidal molting hormone ecdysone. He continued postdoctoral studies at ETH in Zürich, MIT and Harvard. His professional appointments included teaching positions at Fordham, Bilkent University in Ankara, Yale and Brandeis. He lectured at the conferences in Japan, Poland, Turkey, and USA, and presented his work at the Protein Society Symposia. His major publications describe the theory of stereogenesis in organic addition reactions known as “Cieplak effect”: J Am Chem Soc 1981 103:4540; ChemRxiv 2025 doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-r004t-v2; and the backbone-based theory of protein folding and polymerization of tau and β-amyloid: Front Neurosci 2019 13:488; PLoS ONE 2017 12:e0180905. He resides as an independent researcher in Cambridge, Mass.
Title : Molecular pathogenesis of Tau disorders