Dr. Nishimura Receives Post-doctoral Research Award
Dr. Nozomi Nishimura, a postdoc in the Schaffer lab, received a L’Oréal USA Fellowship for Women in Science for ongoing work on the link between Alzheimer’s disease and small strokes. The L’Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science are annually awarded to 5 women scientists at the postdoctoral career stage. The fellowship provides funds for research and professional development career development workshops. Nozomi received her BA in Physics from Harvard University and a PhD in Physics at University of California San Diego before coming to the Schaffer lab at Cornell. She will use the L’Oréal USA fellowship grant to test the idea that blood vessel dysfunction plays a role in triggering Alzheimer’s disease. She will investigate how clot or bleeds in the smallest vessels in the brain of rodents could seed the accumulation of the amyloid-beta proteins that aggregate during Alzheimer’s disease. This work uses newly developed optical tools for the manipulation and measurement of physiology with the living brain.
