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.