Paramita Chakrabarty
Assistant Professor
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Research Profile
Finding effective therapy for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major unmet medical need. Given the genetic association between innate immunity and AD, there is a strong scientific rationale for pursuing research on characterizing therapies targeting immune function as disease modifying therapy in AD and related dementias. We believe that the innate immune system can be potentially harnessed to produce a beneficial disease modifying effect depending on the time and context of immune manipulation. Using various mouse models of AD and related dementias, my laboratory’s work focuses not only on discovering immune pathways linked to these diseases but also testing the efficacy of immune-based therapeutics. The overarching idea for my future research is to harness the effectiveness of these immunobiotherapies, alone or in combination with other existing therapies, for not only Alzheimer’s disease but further extending these ideas to target tauopathies and synucleinopathies.
0000-0002-6226-3776
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Brain imaging
- Disease Modeling
- Gene therapy
- Inflammation
- Parkinson’s disease
- Prion
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- Business:
- (352) 273-7271
- Business:
- pchakrabarty@ufl.edu