Dr. Fossati is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at New York University Langone Health. She earned a B.S. Magna cum Laude in Molecular Biology at the University of Florence, Italy, where she later obtained a PhD in Pharmacology. She joined NYU Langone in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pathology. Her research focuses on identifying common pathways of cell stress in brain endothelial, neuronal and glial cells in Alzheimer’s disease, unveiling new targets for drug discovery and compounds able to rescue neurovascular cells from mitochondrial-mediated cell death. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Alzheimer’s Association New Investigator Research Award, the Blas Frangione Foundation New Investigator Award, and the American Heart Association Scientist Development Award, and was nominated Director of the Blood Biomarker core of the NYU Cohen Veteran Center. Profiting from her background in molecular neuroscience and her experience in ultra-sensitive biomarker studies, she aims to investigate transcriptional and miRNA changes in neurovascular cells as therapeutic targets and biomarkers for the development of much needed strategies in Alzheimer’s disease, Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress.
