Principal investigator: Alexander Ehrenberg, PhD
Alex Ehrenberg (PhD) is a translational neuroscientist at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center and the Doudna Lab at UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute. Neurodegenerative diseases like frontotemporal dementia predictably affect certain brain regions and not others. Dr. Ehrenberg uses tissue collected from patients at autopsy, medical genetics, and laboratory models to understand why neurons are vulnerable or resistant to degeneration. Learning more about mechanisms of selective neuronal vulnerability will help establish new therapeutic targets, especially for patients with inherited disease variants.