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Federico Salas-Lucia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on neurobiology and endocrinology, specifically looking into the intracellular mechanisms that customize thyroid hormone action during human brain development and function. He employs human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-derived models, transgenic mice, and multi-omics approaches, along with confocal fluorescence microscopy and biochemical assays, to elucidate how abnormal maternal and perinatal thyroid hormone levels affect neurodevelopment. Salas-Lucia has contributed to several significant publications that investigate topics such as the implications of overnutrition on thyroid hormone biosynthesis and the role of thyroid hormones in neurogenesis, Alzheimer’s disease, and their signaling pathways in the brain.
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