Hansruedi Mathys
Principal Investigator
- Hansruedi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Education & Training:
- MS, Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Ph.D., Biochemistry, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland
- Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
- mathysh@pitt.edu
- Google Scholar
Kimia Ghafari
Health Science Research Fellow
Kimia is a post-baccalaureate researcher interested in neural pathways and the role of astrocytes during Alzheimer’s disease progression. Her research focuses on the correlation between astrocytic genes and pathology/cognition in Alzheimer’s disease patients.
Sudhagar Babu
Health Science Research Fellow
Sudhagar is a post-graduate research fellow with a background in Biotechnology. Having identified several transcriptionally distinct microglial cell types, he is trying to elucidate novel regulators that govern and modulate microglia activation in Neurodegeneration using pooled CRISPR screens.
Hongyi Zhao
Visiting Scholar
Shihan Wang
Visiting Scholar
Shihan is a visiting scholar from Tsinghua University. She is interested in the mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease by looking into the roles of microglia and astrocytes.
Undergraduate Students
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