Today my main PHD project in the lab of Dr. Maria Bernabeu was published! Using a 3D brain microvessel model, we show: 1) an unappreciated role of brain pericytes in cerebral malaria pathogenesis 2) Tie-2 activation by AKB-9778 as a potential therapeutic avenue www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Pre-print alert 🚨 We answer a longstanding question in the field. Do immune cells cause cerebral malaria? The answer is YES!!!! And independently of P. falciparum accumulation in the brain. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

EMBL Barcelona researchers have created a lab-grown blood-brain barrier to show how the malaria parasite damages it, and have successfully tested potential therapeutics that could help prevent or even reverse the damage. #tissuebiology www.embl.org/news/science...

Exciting to see our paper finally out ✨ Shoutout to my amazing co-first author @alinabatzi.bsky.social and group leader @mariabernabeu.bsky.social for these great years of working together. And a big thank you to everyone involved!