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Suman Jayadev

Suman Jayadev

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Professor
Vice Chair Research, Dept of Neurology.

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Dr. Jayadev is a neurogeneticist and translational neuroscientist at the University of Washington whose career has focused on the clinical features and biological mechanisms of age-related neurodegenerative disease.  Her laboratory has studied microglial biology and neuroinflammatory mechanisms contributing to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related disease pathogenesis for over 16 years, and published one of the early […]

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Paul Valdmanis

Paul Valdmanis

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Associate Professor, Medical Genetics
Adjunct Associate Professor, Genome Sciences
Adjunct Associate Professor, Lab Medicine and Pathology

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Age-associated changes in synaptic non-coding RNAs Dr. Valdmanis joined the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in 2017. His lab studies genetic risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and gene therapy methods for therapeutic intervention. Through a series of studies focusing on long-read sequencing of the genome […]

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