Yifan Dai, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a three-year $200,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to support his research investigating the electrochemistry of neurotoxic protein assemblies.
Dai’s work aims to shed light on the way two seemingly unrelated processes — the development of chemical toxicity and the formation of neurotoxic protein assemblies — couple together through transition-state-dependent, interfacial electrochemical properties to lead to the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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