[caption id="attachment_50395" align="alignright" width="300"] Lulu Jiang, PhD[/caption] Lulu Jiang, PhD, from the UVA Department of Neuroscience, in collaboration with Yimin Zou, PhD, from UC San Diego, was awarded more than $200,000 in funding from CureAlz to investigate how tau proteins contribute to synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease, a key driver of memory loss and cognitive decline. The research focuses on the planar cell polarity pathway, which normally maintains synaptic stability,...
