Dr. Stephen Wong is the Director of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for Bioinformatics Research and Imaging for Neuroscience (BRAIN) and the Chair of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering Department, Houston Methodist Research Institute. Dr. Wong is a specialist in medical imaging and systems biology and their applications to ...
April 8, 2016
Philip C. Wong, Ph.D., is a Professor of Pathology and Chair, Division of Neuropathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. His research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – frontotemporal dementia (FTD). ...
August 22, 2023
Despite the growing appreciation neuroscientists now have for the clear relationship that exists between the brain and the immune system, most studies have focused their attention on microglia—the brain’s primary innate immune cells. However, Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D. from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has kept his ...
December 7, 2021
WELLESLEY, Mass., May 18, 2017 — Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has announced three new members to the organization’s Research Consortium: Marco Colonna, M.D., Beth Stevens, Ph.D., and Stephen Wong, Ph.D. Dr. Colonna is Professor of Pathology & Immunology and Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Beth Stevens is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the FM Kirby ...
May 18, 2017
Modern science has an incredibly thorough understanding of the human body. It is hard to imagine that any organ or system could exist within the body that has yet to be discovered. Yet this is exactly what happened in 2015, when researchers discovered lymphatic vessels around and within the brain. The ...
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OLEG BUTOVSKY, Ph.D. Dr. Butovsky’s major scientific interest is to understand the biology of resident microglia and peripheral inflammatory monocytes in homeostasis and neurodegenerative conditions. During his Ph.D. studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, he investigated the role of microglia in regulating the Aβ plaque deposition in Alzheimer’s models and ...
December 19, 2019
Dr. Jonathan (Jony) Kipnis’s research group focuses on the complex interactions between the immune system and the central nervous system (CNS). The goal is to elucidate the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying these interactions in neurodegenerative, neurodevelopmental, and mental disorders as well as in physiology (including healthy aging). Kipnis’s research team ...
May 24, 2017
