January 30, 2024
January 30, 2024
Angelo Arnone, age 85, passed peacefully in his sleep at home on October 27, 2020, due to complications from Alzheimerās. He was surrounded by his three children, and the prayers and well wishes of family and friends. Born and raised in New Jersey, Angelo worked in the family store until he ...
November 2, 2020
2019, 2022 The risk of developing Alzheimerās disease (AD) increases with age, and identifying the cellular processes that occur in aged neurons will provide significant insights into the pathogenesis of AD. The ability to derive and grow human neurons that mimic neurons of elderly individuals will offer experimental tools to investigate ...
April 26, 2016
Dr. Patrick is a Professor in the Neurobiology Section of the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Patrick is a leader in the field of ubiquitin-dependent protein turnover in neurons in health and disease. As a graduate student he made seminal contributions to ...
September 30, 2020
Alzheimerās disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder of older adults and is characterized by slowly progressive and irreversible dementia. This fatal and currently incurable disease affects millions of people worldwide, including 1 in 10 adults older than 65. AD is associated with the progressive accumulation of two key ...
May 9, 2022
Prof. Lawrence RajendranĀ combines systems biology and cell biology approaches to understand the complexity of neurodegenerative diseases andĀ is a renowned expert in the cell biology of Alzheimerās disease. He studied the mechanisms by which cells regulate the production of the amyloid b (Ab) peptide, a central molecule in the pathogenesis of ...
September 14, 2016
Dr. Vince Groppi is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oricula Therapeutics, LLC, a start-up biotechnology company with a mission to develop medicines that protect hearing and balance from the effects of ototoxic drugs and aging. Dr. Groppi was the Director of the Center for the Discovery of New Medicines, and ...
September 2, 2017
Our exceptional father, Richard (Dick) Lathrop, passed away peacefully on May 9, 2019. We will always remember the smart and caring man he was. He reached his goals in life to become a physician and to be a loving and devoted husband and nurturing father. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey in August ...
May 17, 2019
ThisĀ research proposal from the Dixit laboratory, which will be pursued in interdisciplinary collaboration with the lab of Dr. Rudy Tanzi at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), emanates from our original findings that NLRP3 inflammasome activation in microglia controls age-related inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS) and that CD33-dependent inhibition of ...
September 7, 2016
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