Torbjörn Persson, Ph.D.

JAD profile

Affiliation(s): 

The Rockefeller University; Karolinska Institutet

ORCID URL: 

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9626-1621

Areas of Interest: 

Alzheimer's disease; oxidative stress; antioxidant; Abeta, Thioredoxin, amyloid, chaperone, RNA in situ hybridisation

Biography & Research: 

Torbjörn Persson is currently doing postdoctoral research in the lab of Dr. Thomas Sakmar at The Rockefeller University, New York City. He is working in a project funded by the Pfizer Centers for Therapeutic Innovation initiative to develop a technology platform to produce specially engineered mAbs that recognize various discrete conformational states in transient protofibril intermediates. In addition he studies RNA expression in single cells using a highly multiplexed RNA in situ hybridization method called MERFISH. His Ph.D. studies were mainly focused on the endogenous antioxidant Thioredoxin-1, the cleaved product Trx80, and their role of the proteins in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer Disease.