Professor Ritchie is a leading authority on Clinical Trials in Dementia and has been senior investigator on over 30 drug trials of both disease modifying and symptomatic agents for that condition. This emerged from his ongoing clinical leadership of the MPAC (Metal Protein Attenuating Compound) pipeline for Prana Biotechnology dating back to 1998 when he worked as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Mental Health Research Institute in Victoria, Australia. He has sat on advisory boards of numerous pharmaceutical companies, biotechs and clinical research organizations with an in interest in developing drugs and trials infrastructure for Alzheimer’s disease.