Alterity Therapeutics appoints Daniel Claasen as chief medical advisor

Alterity Therapeutics (ATHE) announced that Daniel Claassen, M.D., M.S., was appointed Chief Medical Advisor and will begin his role in March 2026. As a tenured professor, Dr. Claassen will also retain his academic appointment at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Claassen is a board-certified neurologist and internationally recognized expert in neurodegenerative diseases, with more than two decades of clinical and translational research in movement disorders and cognitive and behavioral neurology. He has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed publications and secured sustained competitive grant funding from agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Defense, and numerous foundations.