Varghese John
University of California, USA
Biography
Varghese received his PhD from the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota in 1985. He a postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Josef Fried’s lab in the Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago and a second postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Carl Djerassi’s lab in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University. He worked with Athena Neurosciences/Elan Pharmaceuticals as a senior member of their Discovery team for 18 years. He then joined the Buck Institute for Research on Aging where he was Director of Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Network. He started the Drug Discovery Lab at UCLA in 2015.
Abstract
Abstract : sAPPα a Potent Endogenous Inhibitor of BACE1: Therapeutic Potential for AD