Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Mandelboim on Receiving a Volkswagen Foundation Grant!

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Ofer Mandelboim has been awarded a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation as part of its NEXT – Rethink Neurodegeneration! initiative.

The funded project, titled “Viral Priming of Neurodegeneration: How Early-Life Virus Infection Creates Latent Vulnerability to Neurodegenerative Proteinopathies (PrimeND),” will explore how early-life viral infections may contribute to susceptibility to neurodegenerative diseases.

Congratulations to Prof. Mandelboim on this important achievement!