Image: An example of a 3D brain microvessel section revealing coverage of the lumenized endothelium (grey) by a multitude of pericytes (coloured), captured using serial block-face scanning electron microscopy

Today my main PHD project in the lab of Dr. Maria Bernabeu was published!
Using a 3D brain microvessel model, we show:
1) an unappreciated role of brain pericytes in cerebral malaria pathogenesis
2) Tie-2 activation by AKB-9778 as a potential therapeutic avenue
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....