Last Spring, Mona Cumaran '23 and Sahil Malhotra '23 received a Bass Connections Student Resarch Award to examine CRISPR-Cas9 and viral vectors and their roles in creating a gene-editing therapy for Alzheimer’s disease. Their project expands on the research of the Gene Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease and Ethical Aspects of Genome Editing team, which examined the causative factors and the mechanisms behind the onset of Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease in order to advance the research and dev...
