William Eimer is an instructor in the Neurology Department of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He dual majored in biology and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.  William earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Northwestern University under the guidance of Dr. Robert Vassar where he researched intraneuronal amyloid and the 5XFAD mouse model. He continued in the field of Alzheimer’s disease, working as a postdoc under Dr. Robert Moir and then as a junior faculty member of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at MGH. His current research focuses on expanding various roles of amyloid’s as an antimicrobial peptide, investigating the potential roles that Herpes viruses play in AD, and exploring how the immune system may be a key component of AD etiology.