Nazira El-Hage, Ph.D., is a tenured professor and researcher at FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Her primary research focuses on the mechanisms regulating the pathology of HIV and assocaited neurological disorders in the central nervous system in the context of opioid drug use. Her lab has a keen interest in the crosstalk between glia-autophagy and the inflammasome signaling platform in response to infectious and age-related neurodegenerative disorders as well as in the potential mechanism of opioid abuse and addiction. Additional projects in her lab are related to the development and delivery of therapeutics targeting neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease in older adults and Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis/Batten disease in late infantile and young children.

Lunch will be provided.

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This event is part of the Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Seminar Series.