Speaker Bio: Aimee Kao, Ph.D.

Aimee Kao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at UCSF. She received her MD, PhD degrees from the University of Iowa and then performed her Neurology residency at UCSF followed by a post-doctoral fellowship with Cynthia Kenyon. Her lab is interested in the basic pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases. She is a Paul G. Allen Foundation Distinguished Investigator in Alzheimer's Disease.