Brain

BIO5 member Ayman Fanous led the largest genetic study of schizophrenia in people of African ancestry, identifying more than 100 new genome regions linked to the condition and advancing understanding across populations.

Chandrasekaran “Arun” Sambamurthy at the University of Arizona studies how the parasite Toxoplasma survives inside the human brain, research shaped in part by the BIO5 Postdoctoral Fellowship.

BIO5 member Roberta Brinton leads a National Institute on Aging training grant that supports University of Arizona graduate students in translational Alzheimer’s disease research, helping them gain the skills needed to turn laboratory discoveries into future treatments.