School of Medicine
Showing 1-3 of 3 Results
-
Melek Firat Altay
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioMelek Firat Altay earned her PhD in Neuroscience from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she studied alpha-synuclein heterogeneity in the context of Parkinson’s disease and other synucleinopathies. In 2024, she joined the Andreasson Lab as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow to explore how immune responses influence Alzheimer's disease pathology and progression. An enthusiast of science communication, she acts as the City Coordinator for the Pint of Science Festival at Stanford/Palo Alto. A trained musician, she also hosts podcasts for the New Books Network, featuring newly published works in biology, neuroscience, biotechnology, and music history and aesthetics.