Insightful Review by Gabriele De Luca at @ox.ac.uk discussing BBB permeability and fibrin deposition driving neuroinflammation, gliosis & neurodegeneration as a shared pathogenic cascade & therapeutic target among neurological diseases.
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Great Session today at 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) on "Immunotherapy of Neurodegenerative Diseases". A tour-de-force talk by V. Wee Yong on extracellular matrix & remyelination. Thank you to the organizers & all for joining us!

Congrats to Zhaoqi Yan postdoc fellow @akassogloulab.bsky.social for his selection for the 2025 Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar Fellowship! Grateful to Warren Alpert Foundation for supporting Zhaoqi’s exciting research on blood-brain barrier & neurodegeneration! www.warrenalpertfoundation.org

Andrew Park & Lauren Le undergraduates @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social joined our lab @gladstoneinst.bsky.social for their research training! Grateful to all members of my lab for supporting the training of 21 amazing undergrads todate & their enthusiasm introducing young scientists to research!

Congrats to Zhaoqi Yan & Jae Kyu Ryu for receiving the 2024 Gladstone Award for Scientific Excellence, to Zhaoqi for the Dormal Best Paper Prize & Pilar Alzamora for the GIND Award of Excellence! Thank you gladstoneinst.bsky.social for recognizing the scientific achievements of this amazing team!

Congratulations to Hisao Miyajima postdoctoral fellow @akassogloulab.bsky.social @gladstoneinst.bsky.social and UCSF for being awarded a NMSS Postdoctoral Fellowship to study mechanisms of progression in Multiple Sclerosis. So proud of his accomplishment!

Excited to chair the #Neuroimmunology Session @ascbiology.bsky.social EMBO #CellBio2024 Meeting. Join us if you are in San Diego!
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New paper led by Roberta Magliozzi at the University of Vienna we collaborated. We report #choroidplexus inflammation correlates with #fibrinogen in the CSF & subependymal periventricular areas with #microglia activation in progressive MS.

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