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Francesca Bartolini, PhD Linkedin Twitter Facebook Google Dr. Bartolini is a cell biologist with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from NYU. Her research laboratory investigates the role of microtubule dynamics and tubulin post-translational modifications in neuronal physiology and at the onset of neurodegenerative and neuropathic disease. Her laboratory is located in the Dept. of Pathology &
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Nicholas Fitz, PhD Linkedin Utilizing a multi-targeted approach my main research goal is to increase the understanding of how changes in gene function and apolipoprotein expression alters Alzheimer’s disease progression. During my graduate and post-doctoral training I received a broad training in utilizing animal models of neurodegenerative disease to test changes in cognition and biological
John Fryer, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google Dr. Fryer received his BS in microbiology at the University of Arizona before joining the lab of Dr. David Hotlzman, MD, at Washington University in St. Louis. There he studied mechanisms of amyloid formation in parenchyma and cerebral vessels in mouse models. After completing his Ph.D. in 2005, he
Thomas Kukar, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google Our lab studies the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases to guide development of novel therapeutics. We focus on Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The goal of my laboratory is to develop new strategies to treat neurodegenerative diseases. We aim to understand the pathogenesis of these diseases by
Hu Li, PhD Linkedin Dr. Li’s team are focused on systems biology, systems pharmacology and individualized systems medicine. Li’s team is active in developing novel network tools and harnessing machine learning methods to study context-dependent activities of regulatory networks at genome-wide scale. The major theme in the research team is to develop novel computational methods
John (Keoni) Kauwe, PhD Linkedin Twitter Facebook Google John S.K. Kauwe III is the eleventh president of Brigham Young University–Hawaii. He assumed the presidency in July 2020. He was sustained as an Area Seventy on April 4, 2024, and continues to serve in that role today. He is a professor of Biology at Brigham Young
Salvatore Oddo, PhD Linkedin Google Dr. Oddo received his undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Catania, Italy, and his graduate degree in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Oddo’s research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying memory deficits in Alzheimer’s disease. Using animal models, he