Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dr. Jeffrey Savas received his Ph.D. from New York University School of Medicine (NYU SOM) in 2009. His Ph.D. training was carried out through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Graduate Partnership Program in the laboratories of Dr. Naoko Tanese at NYU SOM and Dr. Sanford Markey on the NIH campus in Bethesda. His graduate work was focused on studying Huntington’s disease using biochemical and mass spectrometry-based approaches. He then did his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of John R. Yates 3rd at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla California on the application of advance proteomic technologies to study synapses, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). During his postdoctoral studies he published first author papers in Science and Neuron and co-authored 32 publications. Savas joined the faculty of Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine in 2015, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology. His lab’s interests are generally focused on how protein mishandling contributes to synaptic dysfunction and aging. The lab is currently working to: (1) develop new tools to anatomize cell type specific synaptic proteomes, (2) determine the impact of extremely long-lived proteins in the brain and, (3) determine how proteins with hampered degradation contribute to synapse loss in AD.
Dr. Savas is the recipient of several national awards including the NIH Pathway to Independence Award and an Individual Biomedical Research Award from The Hartwell Foundation.
Synaptopathies and Proteinopathies in the Mammalian Nervous System
Saturday, March 23, 2024
9:00am – 9:30am US EDT
