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UCLA Health published an article about the release of a Cell Reports paper from Rexach et al. showing the complexity of interactions between neurons and microglia in Alzheimer’s disease. Rexach et al. used drugs to mimic the effects of gene expression changes, a new technique called chemical genomics. Read the full article here.

The selected researchers were identified by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate based on their scholarly publication counts and citation indexes and wrote publications that ranked in the top 1% by citations in their field for that year. Read the full article here.

Clarivate’s Web Science Group named the most highly cited researchers of 2019 based on how often their work was referenced by other scientific research papers published from 2008 – 2018. Read the full article here.

UCLA Health published an article about the release of a Cell paper from Ruzzo et al. identifying dozens of genes that increase the risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Read the full article here.

UCLA Health published an article about the release of a Nature Neuroscience paper from Tran et al. highlighting RNA-editing dysregulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and revealing new mechanisms underlying ASD. Read the full article here.

UCLA Health published an article about the release of a Natural Medicine paper from Swarup et al. identifying the genetic processes involved in the neurodegeneration that occurs in dementia. Read the full article here.

Congratulations to Dr. Gescwhind and Dr. Michael Jung in the Department of Chemistry for winning the Amgen Early Innovator Award at the UCLA Biomedical and Life Sciences Innovation Day 2018. They were awarded $75,000 to conduct further research on Alzheimer’s disease in the Geschwind Lab. See the full article from the UCLA Newsroom.

Mark Fischetti wrote an article featuring the February 2018 Science paper by Gandal et al. for Scientific American. See the feature below or on the Scientific American website.

Dr. Geschwind and colleagues were featured in UCLA Health’s U Magazine March 2018 edition. See the feature below.