Dr. Kenneth Kosik, the Harriman Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara recently led a team of experts who were focusing on using a known drug to treat the toxic buildup of a protein called “tau” in the brain.
Usually, tau proteins play a role in stabilizing microtubules. These are elements of axons, the “stems” that link neurons (brain cells) together and allow them to communicate.
