Disease-Modifying Targets in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Paving the Way for Disease-Modifying Therapies - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0128051205 ISBN 13: 9780128051207

Verlag: Academic Press, 2017

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Reseña del editor

Disease-Modifying Targets in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Paving the Way for Disease-Modifying Therapies examines specific neurodegenerative disorders in comprehensive chapters written by experts in the respective fields. Each chapter contains a summary of the disease management field, subsequently elaborating on the molecular mechanisms and promising new targets for disease-modifying therapies.

This overview is ideal for neuroscientists, biomedical researchers, medical doctors, and caregivers, not only providing readers with a summary of the way patients are treated today, but also offering a glance at the future of neurodegenerative disorder treatment.

• Provides a comprehensive overview of how key proteins in neurodegenerative disorders can be used as targets to modify disease progress
• Summarizes how patients are treated today, providing a glance at future disease management
• Includes intelligible and informative information that is perfect for non-specialists, medical practitioners, and scientists
• Written and peer reviewed by outstanding scientists in their respective fields

Biografía del autor

Dr. Veerle Baekelandt obtained a Master of Romance Languages, Master of Biology, and a PhD in Biology at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven. She received a Frank Boas Fulbright scholarship for graduate study at Harvard University and became a research fellow in the Laboratory for Neuroscience Research headed by Dr. Larry Benowitz, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (1992-1993). Her post-doctoral fellowship looked at gene therapy for neurodegenerative diseases, which became the cornerstone of her own research group.

She was appointed Assistant Professor at the KU Leuven in 2003 and in 2007, as full-time Research Professor (BOF-ZAP). She is now Head of the Laboratory for Neurobiology and Gene Therapy. Her research focuses on disease modeling and therapy for Parkinson’s disease using viral vectors in cell culture and in vivo. The underlying rationale is that the generation of more relevant models in cells and in pre-clinical model brain will lead to a better insight into the molecular pathogenesis of PD and to the development of new therapeutic strategies and drugs.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Academic Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0128051205
• ISBN 13: 9780128051207
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
• Herausgeber: Baekelandt Veerle, Lobbestael Evy