Science
This episode features Professor Alison Goate, who is a professor of Neuroscience and the Director of the Center for Alzheimer's Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York city. Her lab there studies the molecular genetics of Dementia. Alison and her research team have made significant contributions to our understanding of the genetic causes underlying neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer's by using human genomic methods such as genome-wide association studies and exome sequencing.