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Steven Finkbeiner

Steven Finkbeiner MD, PhD

Neurology
San Francisco, California, United States of America

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Dr. Finkbeiner is currently the Associate Director and Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, the Director of the Taube/Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, and a Professor of Neurology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He studies the molecular mechanisms that are responsible for learning, memory, and neurodegeneration. A better understanding of these mechanisms will yield insights into the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases and the memory disorders that often characterize them.
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A major focus of his work in the area of neurodegenerative disease has been the role of protein dyshomeostasis in Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, ALS, and Frontotemporal dementia. In this context, he has developed a unique fully automated high throughput single-cell analysis platform called robotic microscopy that provides very sensitive measures of phenotypes. This technology has been used to discover disease-related phenotypes in differentiated neurons from patients with neurodegenerative diseases to better understand mechanisms of disease and to find and develop therapeutic strategies.
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