Sentences with phrase «fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused»
His research focuses on the long - term goal of designing small molecule therapeutics for prion diseases — fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by the spread of misfolded proteins across the brain.
Loss - of - function mutations in progranulin (GRN) are one of the most common genetic causes of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive, fatalneurodegenerative disorder with no available disease - modifying treatments.