Erin R. Hascup is the Director of the Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Her primary research interests include evaluation of the neurological, neurochemical, and cognitive changes that occur across the continuum of aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and related disorders with the long-term goal of determining disease stage-specific therapeutics that have the potential to improve patient outcomes, with a special interest in early diagnosis and treatment.

Hascup's Laboratory is currently funded by two grants from the National Institute on Aging and has previously been funded by grants from the Illinois Department of Public Health and the SIU School of Medicine Foundation. She earned a B.S. in biochemistry from Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Kentucky. She completed postdoctoral training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and McGill University in Montréal, Canada.