Berislav zlokovic biography
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For Berislav Zlokovic, life has been full of intriguing choices. Would he study the heart or the brain? Would he focus on neurons or blood vessels? And, perhaps most importantly, would he become a neuroscientist or an opera singer?
He has done a lot of both. But rather than becoming a tenor with a medical degree, Zlokovic is known as the scientist who sings.
Zlokovic chats in cadences acquired during a childhood in Budapest as he speaks about the time he sang with tenor Placido Domingo—or recalls his successful audition with the English National Opera as a young man, and his recent performance of Carmen in San Diego. Although Zlokovic describes his musical biography as "minor, minor, minor," it's clear that the AAAS fellow could talk about the music all day.
"I say, in science, it takes five years to get results. In music, I hit the high notes, and I am happy for two days."
He has a lot to be happy about these days. Zlok
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Berislav Zlokovic, MD, PhD
Berislav Zlokovic, MD, PhD is the director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute and Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and a Professor of Biological Sciences at the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Zlokovic studies the role of brain microcirculation, particularly the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in health and disease in the adult brain and during brain aging. He made major contributions to our understanding of the role of BBB in the pathogenesis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and stroke.
Using animal models and studying human brain, his laboratory has shown that dysfunction in the BBB and brain microcirculation can accumulate before neuronal loss, and is an early biomarker of human cognitive dysfunction. His group showed that disrupted cross-talk between BBB-associated pericytes and brain capillary endothelial cells, and astrocytes and pericytes
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Berislav V Zlokovic, MD, PhD
Chair and University Professor of Physiology & Neuroscience
Mary Hayley and Selim Zilkha Chair in Alzheimer's Disease Research
Director, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
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