Steve Finkbeiner

Steve Finkbeiner is a professor at UCSF and Director of the Taube/Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the Gladstone Institutes. His lab strives to understand the molecular mechanisms involved in learning, memory and neurodegeneration, while the Taube/Koret Center aims to take discoveries from the lab and develop them into viable drug candidates that can be taken forward by industry partners.

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Tools & Techniques Animal models

Lost in Translation?

05/26/2016 | Pascal Sanchez, Steve Finkbeiner, Kate Possin

Scientists from opposite ends of the translational spectrum have teamed up to help solve a pressing problem in Alzheimer’s research. By creating a human equivalent to the water mazes used in rodent studies, they hope to allow easier comparison of data from animal and human studies.