The San Antonio Report interviewed Trinity University psychology professor Kimberley Phillips, Ph.D., and her research collaborators from Texas Biomedical Research Institute and UT Health San Antonio about a $200,000 grant from the San Antonio Medical Foundation to study aging baboons, whose brains share similarities with human brains. The goal is to identify molecular changes that occur before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appear.
Phillips, who leads Trinity’s neuroscience department, is particularly interested in how glial cells, which support brain function, contribute to neurodegeneration. The goal is that earlier detection of neurodegeneration could lead to earlier interventions that might slow or delay the disease’s progression. The full SA Report article is here. Read the original Trinity News story here.