Sir Richard Faull (KNZM) is a distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland. He is a neuroscientist, Co-director of the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand Human Brain Bank and Director of the Centre for Brain Research. He has an H-index of 106 and has published 395 peer reviewed publications in the field of neuroscience which have been cited over 40,000 times (Google Scholar). Richard founded the human brain bank and has overseen the collection, processing, and characterization of brain tissue to ensure the high level of consistency and quality found in brain bank tissue. Richard has established a successful multidisciplinary laboratory studying the changes in neurodegenerative diseases in the human brain and related these changes to clinical symptom profiles.