Bennett leads projects designed to identify novel therapeutics for common neurologic diseases. He also directs the Regional Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center for Northern Illinois. He serves on numerous national and international advisory and editorial boards. He recently rotated off of membership of the National Advisory Council on Aging for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Bennett was the winner of the 2018 Potampkin Prize for research on dementia. He has more than 1150 peer-reviewed manuscript publications, with more than 180,000 citations and an h index = 199.