E E Manuelidis

Elias Emmanuel Manuelidis (15 August 1918 – 11 November 1992) was an American physician and neuropathologist who researched neurological diseases, including polio, Alzheimer's, brain tumors, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He was the head of neuropathology at Yale University.

Biography Elias Manuelidis was born on August 15, 1918, in Constantinople, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. His parents were Ottoman Greeks. His research focused on diseases affecting the nervous system. Some of his research interests were Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative disease which causes dementia; polio, an infectious disease that can have long-lasting impacts on the nervous system; and brain tumors. He demonstrated that CJD can be transmitted via tissue or organ transplant.

Elias Manuelidis and his wife Laura Manuelidis did research into prion disease together as Yale faculty. He met Laura Manuelidis, also a doctor and neuropathologist, while she was his student. Laura Manuelidis succeeded her husband as the head of neuropathology at Yale upon his death.

In 1983, Elias Manuelidis became the president of the American Association of Neuropathologists.