Henry E. Riggs School of Applied Life Sciences

Please join us for KGI PhD Student, Alexander Burns, for his PhD Literature Mastery Seminar Recombinant Adeno-associated virus (rAAV) based gene therapies offer a better quality of life to patients with life-debilitating conditions. But the high cost of rAAV-vector manufacturing for gene therapy applications, which is passed to patients as high-cost treatments, deserves attention. Due […]

Please join us for KGI PhD Student, Ross Steinberg's PhD Literature Mastery Seminar Various metabolic shifts occur within mitochondria prior to and in response to disease states, including cancer, Alcoholic Liver Disease and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, obesity, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease. These shifts can include changes in mitochondrial dynamics (fusion/fission), biogenesis, […]

Please join us for PhD Student, Joshua Yang's PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation on "The Development of a Brain Penetrating Erythropoietin for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease" Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease characterized by amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and microgliosis. Erythropoietin (EPO), a neurotrophin, is a potential therapeutic for AD but has limited […]