The Institute for Genome Sciences’s Ninth Frontiers in Genomics Lecture

Keynote Speaker:
Philip L. De Jager, MD, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Columbia University

Title:
Dissecting the Signaling Networks of Cellular Communities Driving Trajectories of Alzheimer’s Disease and Brain Aging

Host:
Seth A. Ament, PhD

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Reception and Poster Presentations at 4:00 pm, in The Atrium of Health Sciences Research Facility III, 670 W. Baltimore Street

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Philip De Jager, MD, PhD, Columbia University () is the Weil-Granat Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, where he is the Chief of the Division of Neuroimmunology and directs the Multiple Sclerosis Center and the Center for Translational & Computational Neuroimmunology. He is also the Deputy Director of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain. He graduated from Yale University (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Medieval French literature) and from the MD PhD program at Rockefeller University and Cornell University Medical College. He completed his neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and he completed his specialization in Clinical Neuroimmunology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. De Jager’s research program couples modern methods of human immunology and genomics with advanced computational modeling methods to understand how immune responses drive different trajectories of aging and neurodegenerative diseases in the human brain. Focusing on Alzheimer’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis, he leverages these insights to identify novel therapeutic targets and clinically deploy novel interventions with which to modulate immune responses and guide the human brain towards successful brain aging.

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