Robert Moir

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert Moir
Date Of Birth	Apr 2, 1961(1961-04-02)
Age	63
Date Of Death	20 December 2019 (aged 58); Milton, Massachusetts, US
Birthplace	Kojonup
Country	Australia
Birth City	Western Australia
Horoscope	Aries

Robert Moir Biography

Robert Moir is one of the most popular and richest Researcher who was born on April 2, 1961 in Kojonup, Western Australia, Australia.

Moir immigrated to the United States in 1994 to work in Dr Rudolph Tanzi’s laboratory at Harvard University as an Alzheimer’s biochemist. He had met Tanzi at a medical conference in Amsterdam. Moir was also able to purify and produce quantities of the molecule which the brain used to make the beta- amyloid. He concentrated initially in Tanzi’s work on establishing what genes affected the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. He continued working for Tanzi as a post-doctoral fellow and would eventually become an assistant professor in neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital and his own laboratory at the institution.

On completion of high school, he studied biochemistry at the University of Western Australia with one of his microbiology lecturers being Nobel Prize winner Dr Barry Marshall, who discovered that H. pylori cause ulcers. He received his PHD in 1996 from the University of Melbourne, supervised by neuropathologist Dr Colin Masters.

Robert Moir Net Worth

Robert Moir is one of the richest Researcher from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert Moir 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robert David Moir (2 April 1961 – 20 December 2019) was an Australian-born medical research scientist who theorized that the over-accumulation of beta- amyloid, which had formed to protect the brain against microbes, aided the development of Alzheimer’s disease in the human brain.

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In 2016, he attempted to gain funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research whether herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), which causes cold sores and can reach the brain, that might promote both amyloid plaques and tau tangles but was rejected when the third funding reviewer criticized the proposed research as being a possible minor cause of Alzheimer’s, Moir’s lack of being a full professor and poor previous funding. He would later be funded by CureAlz and again attempted to publish in 2017 before finally being published in 2018.

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Robert Ranked on the list of most popular Researcher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Robert Moir celebrates birthday on April 2 of every year.