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Dr Saranna Fanning

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Saranna Fanning is an Assistant Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Fanning received her BSc and PhD degrees in Microbiology from University College Cork (UCC), performing her doctoral research in the labs of Dr. Douwe Van Sinderen (UCC) and Dr. Aaron Mitchell (Columbia University, NY, Carnegie Mellon University, PA). She performed her postdoctoral training in the lab of Dr. Susan Lindquist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, MA and Dr. Dennis Selkoe’s Lab at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s hospital. As an Assistant Professor, her lab investigates the role of lipid metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases. She is particularly focused on identifying therapeutic targets for Parkinson’s disease, one of which has entered clinical trials.

Website: https://fanninglab.bwh.harvard.edu/

X/Twitter: @SarannaFanning

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sarannafanning

My Sessions

SESSION 4: CENTRAL POWER SUPPLY: BATTERY FULLY CHARGED

This session will show us that acting on change and with the right people in place in not enough for us to stay ahead. We need personal ownership. We each need to buy in. We need to make sure our brains are healthy and well – challenging our logic and our creativity – frequently. During […]

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