Salk Institute Allen-AHA Graphical Abstract (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Salk Institute Allen-AHA Graphical Abstract

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Multidisciplinary team led by Salk President Rusty Gage will unravel the mysteries of age-related cognitive decline as a failure of interconnected biological systems. This image represents how the Salk research effort will comprehensively analyze interactions between five areas key to brain health: proteins, genes, metabolism, inflammation and epigenetics. The Salk team aims to study how failure in any one of these systems can cause a domino-like crash that results in devastating brain disorders like Alzheimer's.

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