Provided
Li Gan
Director, Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute; Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine
Burton P. and Judith B. Resnick Distinguished Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Contact Information
Weill Cornell Medicine Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute
413 E. 69th Street
New York, NY 10021
Li Gan
Director, Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute; Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine
Burton P. and Judith B. Resnick Distinguished Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Expertise
Neurodegeneration; neuroinflammation; proteostasis; microglia; lysosome
Current Research Interest
Dissecting the mechanisms underlying the brain’s resilience against neurodegeneration and harnessing our innate resilience program for therapeutic strategies
Distinction
Helis Foundation Award for Parkinson’s Disease and Neurodegenerative Research
Co-Chair, Tau 2022 Global Conference
Associate Editor, Science Advances
Program Committee Member, Society for Neuroscience
Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award for Alzheimer’s Research
Glenn Award for Biological Mechanisms of Aging
Selected Publications
Wang, Chao, Li Fan, Rabia R. Khawaja, Bangyan Liu, Lihong Zhan, Lay Kodama, Marcus Chin, et al. “Microglial NF-κB Drives Tau Spreading and Toxicity in a Mouse Model of Tauopathy.” Nature Communications 13, no. 1 (April 12, 2022): Article No. 1969.
Tracy, Tara E., Jesus Madero-Pérez, Danielle L. Swaney, Timothy S. Chang, Michelle Moritz, Csaba Konrad, Michael E. Ward, et al. “Tau Interactome Maps Synaptic and Mitochondrial Processes Associated with Neurodegeneration.” Cell 185, no. 4. (February 17, 2022): 712–728.