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  • 2015 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Tony Wyss-Coray is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans across several disciplines within the biomedical sciences, with a primary focus on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and neuroscience. The scientist's work is further concentrated in subfields such as molecular biology, neurology, physiology, immunology, and cancer research.

The research topics covered by Tony Wyss-Coray include:

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Among Tony Wyss-Coray's recent publications are:

  • "Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads," 2022, published in Neuron
  • "Lipid-droplet-accumulating microglia represent a dysfunctional and proinflammatory state in the aging brain," 2020, published in Nature Neuroscience
  • "Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer's disease," 2020, published in Nature
  • "A human brain vascular atlas reveals diverse mediators of Alzheimer's risk," 2022, published in Nature
  • "Dysregulation of brain and choroid plexus cell types in severe COVID-19," 2021, published in Nature

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tony Wyss-Coray include:

  • Oliver Hãhn
  • Andreas Keller
  • Benoit Lehallier
  • Hamilton Oh
  • Fabian Kern

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Nature
  • Nature Aging
  • Nature Medicine

Tony Wyss-Coray received the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

    Michael T Heneka;Monica J Carson;Joseph El Khoury;Gary E Landreth

  • Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease.

    H Akiyama;S Barger;S Barnum;B Bradt

  • Geroscience: Linking Aging to Chronic Disease

    Brian K. Kennedy;Shelley L. Berger;Anne Brunet;Judith Campisi;Judith Campisi

  • The ageing systemic milieu negatively regulates neurogenesis and cognitive function

    Saul A. Villeda;Jian Luo;Kira I. Mosher;Bende Zou

  • Inflammation in Neurodegenerative Disease—A Double-Edged Sword

    Tony Wyss-Coray;Lennart Mucke

  • Inflammation in Alzheimer disease: driving force, bystander or beneficial response?

    Tony Wyss-Coray;Tony Wyss-Coray

  • Classification and prediction of clinical Alzheimer's diagnosis based on plasma signaling proteins

    Sandip Ray;Markus Britschgi;Charles Herbert;Yoshiko Takeda-Uchimura

  • Lipid-droplet-accumulating microglia represent a dysfunctional and proinflammatory state in the aging brain

    Julia Marschallinger;Julia Marschallinger;Tal Iram;Macy Zardeneta;Song E. Lee

  • The autophagy-related protein beclin 1 shows reduced expression in early Alzheimer disease and regulates amyloid β accumulation in mice

    Fiona Pickford;Eliezer Masliah;Markus Britschgi;Kurt Lucin

  • A single-cell transcriptomic atlas characterizes ageing tissues in the mouse

    Nicole Almanzar;Jane Antony;Ankit S. Baghel

  • Young blood reverses age-related impairments in cognitive function and synaptic plasticity in mice

    Saul A Villeda;Kristopher E Plambeck;Jinte Middeldorp;Joseph M Castellano

  • Inflammation in Alzheimer Disease—A Brief Review of the Basic Science and Clinical Literature

    Tony Wyss-Coray;Joseph Rogers

  • Adult mouse astrocytes degrade amyloid-beta in vitro and in situ.

    Tony Wyss-Coray;John D. Loike;Thomas C. Brionne;Emily Lu

  • Ageing, neurodegeneration and brain rejuvenation

    Tony Wyss-Coray

  • Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer’s disease

    David Gate;David Gate;Naresha Saligrama;Olivia Leventhal;Andrew C. Yang

  • TREM2 mutations implicated in neurodegeneration impair cell surface transport and phagocytosis.

    Gernot Kleinberger;Yoshinori Yamanishi;Marc Suárez-Calvet;Eva Czirr

  • Developmental heterogeneity of microglia and brain myeloid cells revealed by deep single-cell RNA sequencing

    Qingyun Li;Zuolin Cheng;Lu Zhou;Spyros Darmanis

  • Immune Activation in Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration: Too Much or Too Little?

    Kurt M. Lucin;Tony Wyss-Coray;Tony Wyss-Coray

  • TGF-beta1 promotes microglial amyloid-beta clearance and reduces plaque burden in transgenic mice.

    Tony Wyss-Coray;Carol Lin;Fengrong Yan;Gui-Qiu Yu

  • Neuroinfl ammation in Alzheimer's disease

    Michael T Heneka;Monica J Carson;Joseph El Khoury;Gary E Landreth

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Keller
Andreas Keller Saarland University
Eliezer Masliah
Eliezer Masliah National Institutes of Health
Lennart Mucke
Lennart Mucke University of California, San Francisco
Stephen R. Quake
Stephen R. Quake Stanford University
Thomas A. Rando
Thomas A. Rando Stanford University
Werner J. Pichler
Werner J. Pichler University Hospital of Bern
Robert W. Mahley
Robert W. Mahley University of California, San Francisco
Douglas Galasko
Douglas Galasko University of California, San Diego
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Carolyn R. Bertozzi Stanford University
Claudio Franceschi
Claudio Franceschi University of Bologna

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