Blood Factors as Regulators of Brain Function

About the speaker

Prof. Tony Wyss-Coray received his PhD in Immunology from the University of Bern in 1992. He then joined the Scripps Research Institute in California as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. In 2002, he relocated to the Stanford University and is currently the D. H. Chen Professor II and Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences.

Prof. Wyss-Coray and his research group study brain aging and neurodegeneration with a focus on age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. They are currently studying how circulatory blood factors can modulate brain structure and function, and how factors from young organisms can rejuvenate old brains.

Prof. Wyss-Coray received a number of prestigious awards, including the Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging by the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (2015), the US National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award (2015), the Senior Research Career Scientist Award (2012), the Distinguished Research Scholar Award by the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation (2005), and the Zenith Fellows Award by the Alzheimer's Association (2005).