About
Some of the cells of the peripheral immune system cells, present in the bone marrow, blood and lymph nodes, were recently found to shape the trajectory of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a devastating neurodegenerative illness associated with aging. This is a fantastic development, since there are virtually no treatments for AD, and this discovery opens the door to a completely new class of treatments: modifying the immune cells, rather than trying to access and cure the neurons. In the lab we are exploring the sources of peripheral immune cells which shape the AD trajectory, looking for new peripheral targets in this disease