Andrew S. Yoo, the Phil and Sima Needleman Distinguished Professor of Developmental Biology, and Zhao Sun, a staff scientist in Yoo's laboratory, both of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received the second annual Jeffrey L. Morby Prize from Cure Alzheimer's Fund, a nonprofit that supports research to prevent, slow or reverse Alzheimer's disease. The prize honors the senior and first authors of a recent publication that transforms the understanding of Alzheimer's disease and opens new paths for its prevention, diagnosis or treatment.
Yoo and Sun as well as their co-authors were recognized for their groundbreaking 2024 paper, published in Science, describing a novel method to study aged neurons in the lab without a brain biopsy.
