Three faculty members in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine were recently awarded a multi-year, multi-million dollar grant to research the aging brain.
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Study points to new approach to clearing toxic waste from brain (Links to an external site)
“We were studying this very wonky basic science question — ‘How do proteins get made?’ — and we noticed this funny thing,” said senior author Joseph D. Dougherty, PhD, a Washington University professor of genetics and of psychiatry, and Sapkota’s former mentor.
ICTS Pilot Funding Drives Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases (Links to an external site)
In 2019, Guoyan Zhao, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, utilized a unique ICTS pilot funding project to help develop her research on neurodegenerative diseases.
Zhao receives grant to study proteomics in the brain (Links to an external site)
Guoyan Zhao, assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received a $433,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to apply a cutting-edge imaging technology to study subcellular features of brain tissue from Alzheimer’s patients.