Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha

Global Medical Lead for Alzheimer’s disease at Roche & co-founder and CEO of Women’s Brain Project

Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha is a medical doctor with expertise in clinical pathology, neuroscience and psychiatric disorders. Currently she works as a Global Medical Lead for Alzheimer’s disease Partnership at Roche. She is co-founder and CEO of the non-profit organization “Women’s Brain Project” which is addressing the influence of sex and gender on mental and brain disorders. As a medical doctor, Antonella has decades of experience in preclinical research, patient treatment, clinical development, and setting up the international regulatory framework for Alzheimer’s disease.

Always focused on solving the puzzles related to Alzheimer’s and other psychiatric diseases, she has worked with Swissmedic, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, several European universities, the EU Commission Directorate for Health and Food Safety, the World Health Organization, the CEOi and several Alzheimer’s’ disease Organizations. In 2018 and 2019 she has been nominated among the top 100 Women in Business in Switzerland and in 2019, Woman of the Year for her outstanding achievements in the field of Alzehimer’s and Women’s Brain Health.

Dr. Santuccione Chadha is keenly interested in removing bias when developing solutions for mental and neurological diseases so that precision medicine and novel technologies can be delivered to patients in a more precise and timely manner.