Introduction

Dr. Maria Grazias-Pilantini is one of the stars in the field of neurodegeneration due to her continued contributions over the years. She discovered that alpha snookling is a major component of Louis bodies, the pathognomonic protein adiabts in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease and eventually Louis bodies. Tiago Tairu: I would like to start by asking you to give us a historical perspective of how you and of course your team came to the discovery that alphaSnookling is present in Louis bodies.