Introducing Dr. Niloufar Mollasalehi!

Niloufar has defended her thesis "Two Different Approaches Towards Development of Therapeutics for Neurological Disorders". Her research focused on drug discovery for the neurodegenerative diseases Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

The first approach was the use of small molecules obtained from virtual screening to target TDP-43 for ALS (published in ACS Chem Biol) and the second approach was to use SELEX to generate therapeutic aptamers for MS. Congratulations!!