Yakeel Quiroz’s Research Profiled in Arts & Sciences Magazine
Dr. Yakeel Quiroz‘s work on Alzheimer’s disease was recently featured in Boston University’s Arts & Sciences Magazine. From the article:
More than 55 million people across the world cope with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. A small subset—around 2 percent of cases—have a rare, inheritable form called autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease, which sets in at an early age, with symptoms sometimes appearing in a person’s 30s. As is the case for all types of Alzheimer’s, there is no cure.
Yakeel Quiroz, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences professor of psychological and brain sciences, hopes to change that. She started working with people affected by this form of Alzheimer’s disease more than two decades ago, as a student at the University of Antioquia in her native Colombia. Working in the lab of neurologist Francisco Lopera, Quiroz (GRS’06,’13) began investigating the opaque genetic origins of the disease and how science may be able to delay or alleviate its symptoms.