Prof. Malú Gámez Tansey University of Florida, USA

In 2008, Dr. Tansey became a tenured Associate Professor of Physiology at UT Southwestern, then joined Emory University’s Department of Physiology, becoming a member of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (CND) and serving as Senior Director of Graduate Studies for the Emory Neuroscience Graduate Program. At Emory, she helped establish... read morethe Center for Neurodysfunction and Inflammation (CNI) in 2018. In 2019, she was recruited to the University of Florida as Director of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CTRND) and became the first endowed Norman and Susan Fixel Chair in Neuroscience and Neurology. Today, Tansey’s lab investigates inflammation and immune system responses in brain health, focusing on the gut-brain axis. Her goal is to train the next generation of scientists and develop better therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.