Preeti Sharma

Biography:

Preeti Sharma is a 4th -year PhD student at the Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Her research thesis, “Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms Behind Tau Propagation in Alzheimer’s Disease,” focuses on lysosome-associated tau processing, secretion, and propagation in AD. She is the first author of a publication in Autophagy entitled “impaired tau-secretory lysosomes and cognitive vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease, and a co-author of a Journal of Biological Chemistry publication entitled “Distinct neuronal vulnerability and metabolic dysfunctions are characteristic features of fast-progressing Alzheimer's patients with Lewy bodies”.