Dr. Harrison Tudor Evans is a molecular neuroscientist and postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Eric Klann at the Center for Neural Sciences at New York University. His research explores how the crucial cellular process of protein synthesis is impaired in neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Dr. Evans received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at The University of Queensland in the laboratory of Prof. Jürgen Götz, where his work demonstrated that protein synthesis was impaired by the microtubule associated protein tau, one of the key pathogenic proteins in frontotemporal dementia. His current work examines how ribosomes, the cellular machines responsible for protein synthesis, are altered in FTD and whether tau-induced impairments in protein synthesis can block the formation of new long-term memories.
