Dr. Pete Nelson is an experimental neuropathologist focusing on Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Nelson is the Director of the Neuropathology Division of the Pathology Department, and he also directs the brain bank and the Neuropathology Core of the University of Kentucky Alzheimer’s Disease Center. He is responsible for the Alzheimer’s Disease Center brain autopsies. These autopsies are performed with profound respect for the volunteers who are enabling us to help combat this dreadful disease. Dr. Nelson’s career is motivated partly by his own grandmother, Sylvia “Tib” Becker, who died with Alzheimer's disease.