The University of California, Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) is proud to announce that postdoctoral fellow Jean Paul Chadarevian, PhD, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Larry L. Hillblom Foundation. The three-year, $225,000 award will support Dr. Chadarevian’s innovative research into the role of peripheral immune cells in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Working in the laboratory of Dr. Mathew Blurton-Jones, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at UCI, Dr. Chadarevian will investigate how immune cells that originate outside the brain infiltrate it and contribute to the disease’s pathology.
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