Marco M. Hefti, MD
Assistant Professor
Department
Pathology
Biography
I am interested in the role of the tau protein in human brain development and in response to early-life hypoxic-ischemic injury, and in how this related to the development of age-related tauopathies such as Alzheimers disease.
Research areas
- Cellular and molecular neuroscience
- Clinical neuroscience
- Structural and trafficking proteins
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Stem cells
- Cell culturing
- Neuropathology
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