David Borchelt

Feature story highlights some of the promising Alzheimer’s investigations underway at UF.

Learn more about postdoctoral fellowships’ crucial role at a research university and meet several UF postdocs.

Learn more about postdoctoral fellowships’ crucial role at a research university and meet several UF postdocs.

Study demonstrates that additional proteins misfold in the presence of neurodegenerative disease pathologies.

Autopsy studies of dolphins washed ashore on the beaches of Spain revealed the telltale pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.

Chronic neurological diseases — Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), Huntington’s disease, neuromuscular disease, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, to mention only a few — afflict millions of Americans worldwide and account for tremendous morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, age is the largest risk factor for many…