The Role of Post-Translational Modifications on Tau Transmission in PSP

Principal Investigator: Dr. Chao Peng UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

Chao Peng, PhD completed his doctoral training at Fudan University in Shanghai in 2012 and postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania with Dr. Virginia M.-Y. Lee and Dr. John Q. Trojanowski.  He is presently Assistant Professor of Neurology at UCLA.  His current research centers on pathological alpha-synuclein and tau transmission as well as conformational diversity in alpha-synucleinopathies such as Parkinson’s disease and tauopathies such as PSP, work reported as a first-author paper in the prestigious journal Nature. He is currently a grantee of the Michael J. Fox Foundation.