Professor Maurice Curtis is a neuroscientist and Co-director of the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand Human Brain Bank and has experience in making tissue microarrays, immunohistochemistry, brain banking, autoradiography, and cell-based assays. Maurice has published more than 115 peer reviewed publications and runs the human brain bank ensuring that high quality, genetically and neuropathologically well characterized human brain tissue is available for research. Maurice has run a large research group since 2007 focused on human brain cell migration and plasticity in the brain in response to neurodegenerative diseases. His laboratory also studies the early brain changes that occur before an individual is symptomatic for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.