Henrik Zetterberg

Early life and career

Zetterberg was born He completed his doctoral thesis in 2003 on the subject of the Epstein–Barr virus. He performed postdoctoral research at Harvard using zebrafish as a model for alzheimer's disease. In 2020, a team of scientists led by Zetterberg published results regarding a new diagnostic for Alzheimer's disease based on protein concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid, which is a colorless fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. The test was reported to have an accuracy of around 90% and could detect the disease about two decades before significant symptoms were present.