Month: November 2014

Congratulations to Professor Tsuneya Ikezu and Colleagues for Selection in the Neuroscience 2014 Press Conference

Tau’s Role in Neurodegeneration Microglia and exosome-mediated spread of pathogenic tau in Alzheimer’s disease Our study suggests that microglial uptake and spreading of tau protein may play an important role in Alzheimer’s disease.  Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects more than 5.3 million people in the United States. The average life expectancy is […]

GPN Student-Scott Kuzdeba, Wins IARPA Award!

JEDI MIND Wins IARPA’s INSTINCT Challenge WASHINGTON – The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced today the winner of its first public challenge contest, Investigating Novel Statistical Techniques to Identify Neurophysiological Correlates of Trustworthiness (INSTINCT). Troy Lau and Scott Kuzdeba’s winning solution, “JEDI MIND,” […]