Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Translational Work-in-Progress Series

Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, PhD
Provost, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Newark; Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School & Center for Immunity and Inflammation

“Does peripheral immunosenesence contribute to Alzheimer’s Disease and provide potential targets for intervention?”

Dr. Fitzgerald-Bocarsly is a cellular immunologist and will discuss some of her work on immune senescence in the context of aging. She is working on a potential grant application that will build on some of her work on immune characterization of aging humans to investigate the increased senescence signature in peripheral blood immune populations from aging humans and the possible contribution of immune senescence to Alzheimer’s Disease. In addition to her groundbreaking work in innate immunity to viral infections, Dr. Fitzgerald-Bocarsly’s research focuses on senescence of immune populations in blood of donors ranging from cord blood to individuals in their 80s and above, with an emphasis on CD8+ T cell subsets as well as innate immune cells.
This is not a formal talk and discussion and critique are very much welcome.

Attend via Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94769804345?pwd=IMqJIIvuDmRl997R6O4U4NKbt6UWfs.1