FunGen-AD researcher Alison Goate was part of a team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that used genetic and genomic tools to uncover new information about regulators of the macrophage transcriptomic state. These discoveries could provide therapeutic targets for modulating macrophage function in Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
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FunGen AD-supported stem cell research suggests new alternative treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
Genetic studies have linked variations of the SORL1 gene to both early- and late-stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the exact link between damaged SORL1 genes and AD was not previously known. To further understand the role of SORL1 in AD, a team of researchers—including FunGen-AD grantee Philip L. De Jager—analyzed stem cells from patients with AD.
Read moreNew optical techniques shed light on protein aggregation
FunGen-AD grantee Peter St George-Hyslop was part of a collaboration among researchers from the University of Sydney, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and Columbia University that developed new optical methods to observe development of pathological protein aggregates in cells.
Read moreProteomic analysis could be used to distinguish sporadic and genetic Alzheimer’s disease
FunGen-AD investigator Carlos Cruchaga and a team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis analyzed proteins in brain tissue, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and plasma samples from patients with sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) or autosomal dominant AD, TREM2 variant carriers, and healthy individuals.
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