Young blood for old brains

Four years after his incredible discovery that blood from young mice can rejuvenate the brains of old mice, Tony Wyss-Coray gave an update on the factors responsible – and the prospect of treating neurodegenerative diseases and reversing aging.

Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University

Memory loss with aging annoys the heck out of Tony, a professor of neurology at Stanford. His eponymous lab studies brain aging and neurodegeneration, with a focus on age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. Tony is also co-director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Stanford University Medical School, associate director of the Center for Tissue Regeneration, Repair and Restoration at the Palo Alto VA, and sits on the board of directors of Alkahest, a start-up developing blood-derived therapies to improve vitality and function into old age.