Per Borghammer is a professor of nuclear medicine and neuroscience, Medical Faculty of Aarhus University. He specializes in clinical imaging of neurodegenerative disorders, in particular Parkinson’s disease (PD). Dr. Borghammer’s research involves understanding the early and prodromal phase of PD. His research focuses mainly on the etiopathogenesis and subtypes of PD, in particular the prion-like spreading of alpha-synuclein and whether PD in some cases originates in the peripheral autonomic nervous system. Dr. Borghammer employs a highly multi-disciplinary approach, including in depth characterization of patient cohorts using multi-modality imaging, histological studies of archived patient tissues, epidemiological studies and mechanistic studies in experimental animal models of PD. In addition, his group is developing a range of PET tracers and other objective imaging markers to study non-motor dysfunction in PD. Dr. Borghammer’s research is funded by the Lundbeck foundation, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, Danish Research Council and Danish Parkinson Association.