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Emily Rocha

Emily Rocha

Co-PI (Core Leadership)

University of Pittsburgh

Emily is an early career investigator in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh. As a postdoctoral fellow, at Harvard Medical school and University of Pittsburgh she applied basic cell biological tools and in vivo approaches to study how age-related changes in autophagy-lysosomal pathway and mitochondria impact PD progression.

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Animal models Transcriptomics Oxidative stress PD heterogeneity: environment Pesticides Gene-environment interactions

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