AmandaMcQuade
PhD
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Current Organization
University of California, San Francisco
Biography
Amanda McQuade, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. Amanda received her PhD from UC Irvine where she worked with Dr. Mathew Blurton- Jones to develop a new protocol for differentiating iPSC-derived microglia and applied this model to study risk-associated genes for Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, Amanda is working with Dr. Martin Kampmann at UCSF. Her ongoing research focuses on understanding genetic regulators of microglial activation in the context of neurodegeneration.