[In Context] Katrin Andreasson: rethinking neurodegeneration

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17 Oct 2026 0 comments

For a self-described “late bloomer”, Katrin “Kati” Andreasson certainly appears to have made up for lost time. Now the Edward F and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, USA), last year she received the Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award for Alzheimer's Research, in recognition of an article on which she was senior author. Published in 2024, the paper linked astrocytic support for neuronal glucose metabolism to memory decline and amyloid β and tau pathologies in experimental models of Alzheimer's disease.