Katerina Akassoglou
Katerina Akassoglou is a neuroimmunologist who is a Senior Investigator and Director of In Vivo Imaging Research at the
Gladstone Institutes. Akassoglou holds faculty positions as a Professor of Neurology at the
University of California, San Francisco. Akassoglou has pioneered investigations of
blood-brain barrier integrity and development of neurological diseases. She found that compromised blood-brain barrier integrity leads to fibrinogen leakage into the brain inducing neurodegeneration. Akassoglou is internationally recognized for her scientific discoveries.
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