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IMAGE: The 2021 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research goes to Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD, the Samuel Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, for outstanding research contributions. view more
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2021 Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD, the Samuel Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research.
A graduate of Veterinary Medicine from the College of Veterinary Medicine in Hisar, India, who earned a PhD in pathology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia, Kuchroo is Senior Scientist at Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Co-director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, Brigham Research Institute, Boston. He is a member of the Broad Institute, and a participant in a Klarman Cell Observatory project that focuses on T cell differentiation and is the founding
When UC Santa Barbara neurology professor Kenneth S. Kosik was a newly minted graduate in 1972, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English literature from Case Western University, becoming one of the foremost authorities in the field of Alzheimer’s research was probably nowhere on his radar. But that would soon change.
“Even as an undergrad, I learned that what seemed impossibly remote suddenly arrives one day,” Kosik said. It was a lesson he gleaned from years of examining the human experience through the channel of literature.
One such “improbable” event occurred only a few years later, in 1976, when he earned a medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Deciding to pursue medicine when he realized that the real world was a source of continuous inspiration, it was an early milestone in what would be a career studying the ultimate lens of human experience: the brain.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Middle-age and older people living in more disadvantaged neighborhoods areas with higher poverty levels and fewer educational and employment opportunities had more brain shrinkage on brain scans and showed faster decline on cognitive tests than people living in neighborhoods with fewer disadvantages, according to a study published in the April 14, 2021, online issue of
Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers say such brain aging may be a sign of the earliest stages of dementia. Worldwide, dementia is a major cause of illness and a devastating diagnosis, said study author Amy J. H. Kind M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. There are currently no treatments to cure the disease, so identifying possible modifiable risk factors is important. Compelling evidence exists that the social, economic, cultural and physical conditions in which humans live may affect hea
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