Alice Chen-Plotkin, associate professor of neurology at PSOM, received a 2019 Biomarkers Across Neurodegenerative Diseases (BAND) Program grant for $149,621 over two years for measuring different types of alpha-synuclein and tau oligomers in human-derived bio fluids from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

Yuk Yee Leung, research assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, received a 2019 BAND Program grant for $150,000 over two years to help fund research on inferring regulatory mechanisms of noncoding genetic variants in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.