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A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?

Two undergraduate researchers at Kosik Lab received Goldwater scholarships in 2024--one of the most prestigious undergraduate scholarships in natural science, mathematics, and engineering in the United States.

Two students receive accolades for research at Kosik Lab.

NRI Co-Director, Kenneth Kosik created organoids that, surprisingly, have a lot to say about how the brain works.

TED Style Lecture with Global Alzheimer's Experts

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30751-4

Global Studies Colloquium: Kenneth S. Kosik, M.D. presents his campus experience with the COVID-19 crisis and charts a direction forward.

Juliana Acosta-Uribe received her MD degree from the University of Antioquia (Medellin-Colombia) in 2013. After graduating, she spent the next three years researching hereditary neurodegenerative diseases. She received her MA in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from UCSB in 2019 and is currently working towards her Ph.D at UCSB. Her research currently centers on neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer’s Disease through the lens of population genetics.