A new study lead by senior scientist Amy Christensen, the Pike Lab reports that the protective effects of estrogen against obesity and Alzheimer’s pathology is reduced during aging in female mice.

The Pike Lab welcomes Bayla Breningstall who joins the lab as a research technician.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Nguyen who was awarded a coveted postdoctoral slot on the NIH funded, USC-Buck Geroscience Training Program in the Biology of Aging

Congratulations to Pike Lab grad student Alexandra Moser, who was formally hooded in PhD graduation ceremonies at USC. Alexandra has just started her postdoc position with Clive Svendsen at Cedars-Sinai working on applications of stem cell therapies for Alzheimer’s disease. Congratulations to Pike Lab undergraduate

More great funding news – the Pike Lab received a generous grant from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund to support collaborative studies with Caleb Finch to study sex differences in the relationships among Alzheimer’s genetic risk factors APOE4 and TREM2. Thank you to Cure Alzheimer’s Fund