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Richard Morimoto
Field:
Aging, Human Biology, Molecular Biosciences
Focus Areas:
Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, Neurodegenerative Disease, Stress
Contact:
Media Relations Contact:
Amanda Morris
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology
Molecular Biosciences
Director, Rice Institute for Biomedical Research
About
Areas of Focus
- Biology of aging
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of stress resilience
- Small molecule therapeutics of aging and degenerative diseases
Work/Research
- Heat shock response and cellular stress responses in biology and diseases
- Function of molecular chaperones and the proteostasis network to maintain cellular health and organismal longevity and to respond to challenges from stress, aging and diseases of protein conformation