Congratulations to Lea Grinberg and Daniela Ushizima winners of the PMWC Pioneer Award for developing a new and reliable technique for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and measuring the eficacy of experimental treatments.

Winners of the PMWC Pioneer Award for developing a new and reliable technique for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and measuring the ef cacy of experimental treatments.

Alzheimer's drug lecanemab slows cognitive decline but concerns linger

The lecanemab group also had substantial decreases to the number of misfolded proteins in the brain called tau tangles. These proteins increased in the control group. “Tau is the abnormal protein in Alzheimer’s disease that has the best correlation with clinical decline,” says Lea Grinberg at the...

Best postdoctoral poster competition award AAIC 2022

Grinberg lab's very own Postdoc Abhijit Satpati

Loss of Neurons, Not Lack of Sleep, Makes Alzheimer’s Patients Drowsy Reviving “Awake Neurons” Could Be the Solution to Their Sleepiness, UCSF Study Shows

The lethargy that many Alzheimer’s patients experience is caused not by a lack of sleep, but rather by the degeneration of a type of neuron that keeps us awake, according to a study that also confirms the tau protein is behind that neurodegeneration. The study’s findings contradict the common...

Ladders Inc.: This very normal habit could be a symptom of Alzheimer’s Disease

This article was updated on August 12, 2021. A report published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s and Dementia, posits that toxic clumps of a protein called tau might be what causes Alzheimer’s disease.

DGIST Ph.D. candidate receiving a degree from DGIST and Maastricht University, Gowoon Son, DGIST

Gowoon Son, an Integrated M.S. and Ph.D. student in the department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, successfully completed the graduate program of Maastricht University in Netherlands to receive Ph.D. from both DGIST and Maastricht University.

Brain Cells Most Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease Identified by Scientists Findings Could Lead to Targeted Treatments to Boost Brain’s Resilience

A major mystery in Alzheimer’s disease research is why some brain cells succumb to the creeping pathology of the disease years before symptoms first appear, while others seem impervious to the degeneration surrounding them until the disease’s final stages. 

UCSF News: Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake

Study Suggests Tau Tangles, Not Amyloid Plaques, Drive Daytime Napping That Precedes Dementia

Mapping the human brain to combat Alzheimer's

An article featuring research lead by Grinberg lab post-doctoral fellow Maryana Alegro, PhD for Berkeley's Institute for Data Science (BIDS). To read the full article, see the BIDS webpage.

UCSF Faculty Senate Profile

Profile and video of Prof. Lea Grinberg written and produced by the UCSF Faculty Senate discussing her work as a scientist, and how her life growing up in Brazil has lead to her career as a neuropathologist. Read the full text at the Faculty Senate Website.