Gene hunter by day, Aerosmith organist by night

When Aerosmith looked for an organist to play like a “drunken church lady,” they could have taken their pick from hundreds of willing candidates. But only one was also a Ph.D-wielding expert on how beta amyloid accumulates in the brain. Rudy Tanzi, the Kennedy Professor of Neuroscience at HMS and Massachusetts General Hospital, is the organist the band went with for their latest album.

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