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Tammaryn Lashley, PhD
… underlying frontotemporal dementia and studying whether multiple mechanisms are associated with the different …
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Gjalt W. Huisman, PhD
… previously led efforts at Codexis, where his team advanced multiple therapeutic enzyme candidates—several with FDA …
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Yuval Itan, PhD
… association studies (PheWAS) in large biobanks across multiple human populations, as demonstrated in his recent …
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How Cell Communication Problems May Contribute to Parkinson’s Disease
… antennas to receive signals. Inside the cell, a recycling system helps maintain these antennas by removing old or … parts and replacing them with new ones. If either of these systems fails, brain cells cannot process signals correctly … disease. Our study aims to uncover how these two systems normally work together and what goes wrong in …
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Developing a Protein Quality Control Mechanism as a Novel Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
… that accumulate in cells of the central nervous system. In healthy cells, protein misfolding and aggregation … or reversed by various protein quality control (PQC) systems. However, we lack a complete understanding of these systems, which hinders our ability to develop therapies for …
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The anatomic basis of cardiac and cognitive changes in Parkinson's disease: A collaborative study with the Parkinson's Institute, Sunnyvale, CA (USA)
… Objective/Rationale: The heart, particularly the conduction system, is influenced by the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. Recently, early-occurring Parkinson’s … cardiac pathology fits into the neuropathological staging system for the brain published by our Frankfurt group in …