Message from Dr. Stern: As the Clinical Core Director of the NIA - funded BU AD & CTE Center, I oversee clinical research on AD and related disorders at the center, including serving as the site PI on several multi-center NIH - and industry - sponsored clinical trials. (sternneurolab.org)
Using NFAT as a starting point, Pereira and Gustavo J. Martinez, Ph.D., formerly a joint postdoc in the Rao and Hogan labs and now the Genomics Core Director at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, established that interfering with NFAT's ability to partner with AP - 1 tips the balance toward T cell exhaustion and and impairs the immune system's response to tumors and infections. (sciencedaily.com)
As Core Director, he can provide assistance in both framing questions of interest in terms of available technologies, as well as the analysis of high dimensionality data - sets which typically arise from genomic studies. (buckinstitute.org)