The eteology of alsheimer disease is largely unknown, and it could be multi factorial. But i do think metabolic disregulation and a infectious agents are major contributors to not only al sheimer disease, but parkinsons and m s and al s and these things ad finally people are looking into this. And we've applied therapeuti tosis to alsheimers disease, you know. Kind of thought it was academic suicide, but went down that road nyway, because i knew thi, you know, we were on to something.
Dr. Dominic D’Agostino is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. He is also a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). His laboratory develops and tests metabolic-based strategies for targeting CNS oxygen toxicity (seizures), epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, brain cancer and metastatic cancer.