Our Lab's News
August 2025 : Stephanie Huard Receives the NIH F31 award
June 2025 : Welcome to our newest post-doc, Katherine Espinoza!
March 2025 : Welcome to our newest Staff Scientist, Marc Gastou!
2024
October 2024: Carlo Condello received the Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation Award from the George & Judy Marcus Innovation Fund.
September 2024: Congratulations to Carlota for being awarded the UCSF Discovery Fellowship
September 2024: Congratulations to Yang for receiving the NIH K99/R00 award from the National Institute on Aging!
August 2024: New paper published in Acta Neuropathologica: Severe neurodegeneration in brains of transgenic rats producing human tau prions
August 2024: New opinion article published in JAMA Neurology: Expanding the Prion Paradigm to Include Alzheimer and Parkinson Diseases
July 2024: Congratulations to Julio Leon for being awarded the Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship
June 2024: New paper published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications: Cryo-EM structures reveal tau filaments from Down syndrome adopt Alzheimer’s disease fold
June 2024: Welcome to our newest graduate student, Saheli Singh (Neuroscience)!
March 2024: Welcome to our newest graduate student, Carlota Pereda Serras (PSPG)!
2023
October 2023: Welcome to our newest graduate student, Emily Graham (MSTP/Tetrad)!
September, 2023: Henry Pan awarded BrightFocus Postdoctoral Fellowship
July, 2023: Best of luck to lab member Marie Shi on her MD/PhD journey at the Boston University!
July, 2023: Dr. Carlo Condello promoted to Associate Professor
March, 2023: New paper published in PNAS: EMBER multidimensional spectral microscopy enables quantitative determination of disease- and cell-specific amyloid strains
January, 2023: New paper published in Nature Communications: CSF1R inhibitors induce a sex-specific resilient microglial phenotype and functional rescue in a tauopathy mouse model
2022
December, 2022: Carlo Condello awarded New Frontiers Research Award from Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research (PBBR) at UCSF
November, 2022: New paper published in PNAS: Aβ and tau prions feature in the neuropathogenesis of Down syndrome
July, 2022: Welcome to our newest graduate student, Stephanie Huard (BMS)!
May, 2022: Carlo Condello named The Edward N. & Della L. Thome Memorial Foundation Awards Program in Alzheimer's Disease Drug Discovery Research 2021 Award RecipientEnter content.
2021
December, 2021: New paper published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications: Emergence of distinct and heterogeneous strains of amyloid beta with advanced Alzheimer’s disease pathology in Down syndrome
October, 2021: Hyunjun Yang receives Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research Postdoctoral Independent Research Grant
September, 2021: Welcome to our newest research assistant, Marie Shi!
August, 2021: Carlo Condello receives the Ludwig Family Foundation Early Career Award
July, 2021: New manuscript posted on BioRxiv: Emergence of distinct and heterogeneous strains of amyloid beta as Alzheimer’s disease progresses in Down syndrome
July, 2021: Carlo Condello receives John A. Watson Faculty Scholar Award (UCSF School of Medicine, Dean's Diversity Fund)
June, 2021: Best of luck to lab member Madhy Garcia on her graduate school journey at the University of California, Irvine!
June, 2021: Welcome to our newest graduate student, Ian Steele (PSPG)!
May, 2021: Welcome to our newest postdoctoral fellow, Erika Castillo!
March, 2021: New manuscript posted on BioRxiv: CSF1R inhibitor levels determine sex-specific phenotype of resilient microglia and neurofunctional rescue leading to extended survival in tauopathy mice
October, 2020: Hyunjun Yang awarded Bright Focus Postdoc Fellowship.