Our new pre-print is out! The result of a wonderful collaboration with the Tanaka lab at RIKEN Center for Brain Science.

We investigate the question: what can yeast prions teach us about the connection between amyloid polymorphism and phenotype?

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Protect the integrity of the US National Institutes of Health Letter to the Editor

These members of the NIH Council of Councils are voicing serious concerns about NIH grant terminations, restructure, and budget cuts

go.nature.com/46Vr8t2

Earlier Detection of Alzheimer’s Could Help Reduce Its Most Devastating Effects Heidi Jacobs, PhD, is a leader in Alzheimer’s disease research whose personal experience with the disease strengthens her passion for finding a cure — something she is well on her way to achieving.

Learn about our work towards earlier detection of Alzheimer's disease. Despite NIH-funding being delayed, terminated, and uncertain, we are fiercely committed to these goals! Link for donations to support our work is at the bottom of the page, or reach out.
giving.massgeneral.org/stories/earl...

Funding crisis hits US ageing research - Nature Shortfalls hamper scientists' efforts to address a predicted epidemic of age-related diseases.

More than a decade-old story, but it resonates again now.
"NIA is in an exceptional predicament. In recent years, it has made big commitments to costly clinical trials and large group projects."
www.nature.com/articles/468...
The value of top-down big projects needs to be reevaluated, especially now

I believe in fairness and an end to Big Money in politics.

Was one of the 36,000 ppl at the largest ever Sanders rally and was not paid to be there 😉