Ka Ho Leung, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Clarkson University, was recently awarded a grant (~$290,000) from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health. The main goal of this research is to evaluate the eligibility of chloride channel-targeted therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.
The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and the lack of successful drugs in clinical trials result in a significant healthcare burden. This project aims at prospectively evaluating chloride channel-targeted therapy for attenuating maladaptive immune response in Alzheimer’s disease. This study may lay the foundation for chloride physiology and prospective validation of chloride channel-targeted therapy against Alzheimer’s disease and related neurological disorders.
Professor Leung joined Clarkson University as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science in 2021. He was awarded the NIH 2022 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award. His research interests lie in developing subcellular imaging tools for cell physiology investigation.