Tackling Alzheimer’s Disease Nora Caberoy School of Life Sciences

Tackling Alzheimer’s Disease
A symposium sponsored by the UNLV College of Sciences
November 13, 2015 • 1 p.m. • Juanita Greer White Hall Auditorium (Room 197)
Nora Caberoy
School of Life Sciences
“Phagocytosis-based Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease”
Our ultimate goal is to develop a new therapy to eliminate and/
or prevent the build up of harmful levels of amyloid beta in the
Alzheimer’s disease brain.
Ronald Gary
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
“A Chemist’s Approach Toward Unraveling the ‘Tangles’
in Alzheimer’s Disease”
Neurofibrillary tangles are molecular structures that appear in the
brain during Alzheimer’s disease. These structures are damaging
to brain function, and are composed of a protein called tau. Our
research focuses on the chemical process that turns normal tau
into tangled tau, and looks at chemical inhibitors that may have the
potential to prevent the development of neurofibrillary tangles.
Martin Schiller
Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine
“Algorithms for Identifying Genetic Pathways in
Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease”
We developed a novel computational algorithm to look for sets
of genetic variants that cluster together in a cohort of late-onset
Alzheimer’s disease patients.