Rebecca Wallings

Becky Wallings is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University’s Stark Neurosciences Research Institute and the Departments of Neurology and Microbiology & Immunology. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford, where she identified a novel LRRK2 substrate linking PD mutations to lysosomal dysfunction. During her postdoctoral work, which focused on lysosomal regulation of neuroinflammation in PD, Becky received fellowships from the Parkinson Foundation and BrightFocus Foundation and was awarded a Parkinson Foundation Launch Award to establish her independent laboratory. Her research investigates how immune aging, immune cell exhaustion, and immunosenescence drive neurodegeneration, with the goal of developing immune-targeted strategies to slow or prevent Parkinson’s disease.