Education
Hardy received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Leeds in 1976 and his Doctor of Philosophy from Imperial College London in 1981 for research on dopamine and amino acid neuropharmacology.
Hardy received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Leeds in 1976 and his Doctor of Philosophy from Imperial College London in 1981 for research on dopamine and amino acid neuropharmacology.
He became Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Saint Mary"s Hospital, Imperial College London in 1985 and initiated genetic studies of Alzheimer"s disease there. He became Associate Professor in 1989 and then took the Pfeiffer Endowed Chair of Alzheimer"s Research at the University of South Florida, in Tampa in 1992. In 1996 he moved to Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, as Consultant and Professor of Neuroscience.
He became Chair of Neuroscience in 2000 and moved to National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, as Chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics in 2001.
In 2007 he took up the Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease at the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, University College London. On November 29, 2015, he was awarded the Breakthrough Prize.
Royal Society.