Lulu Jiang, MD, PhD
About
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
M.D. & MBBS, Shandong University
Email: wpm5vs@virginia.edu
Research Interests
The Pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other dementia-related disorders.
Research Description
1) Protein-Protein and Protein-RNA interactions in AD and related dementia
2) Molecular mechanism of prion-like propagation in Braak stages of AD
3) Neuron-glia interactions and neuroimmunological mechanisms in pathogenesis of AD and PD
4) iPSC-induced 3D human brain organoid models of neurodegenerative diseases and precision medicine
5) Development of innovative genetic and small molecule therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases