Patricia Kao

September 2008 – present: PhD Program – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Dr. Ivana Delalle Lab – Advisor
2007: M.S. Pharmaceutical Sciences Western University of Health Sciences
2005: B.S. Biology, Minor Business Administration University of California, Riverside

Studying the neuropathology in human Alzheimer’s Disease brains

Poster Presentations

2010: Poster Presentation (accepted): Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California; November 2010 Patricia F. Kao, Charles Vanderburg, Ann McKee, Sudha Seshadri and Ivana Delalle. Tissue markers of brain reserve during Alzheimer’s disease (AD) progression
2010: Poster Presentation (accepted)17th International Conference of Neuropathology, Salzburg, Austria; September 2010 Patricia F. Kao, David A. Davis, Charles Vanderburg, and Ivana Delalle. Capzb2 is specifically increased in the hippocampi of patients diagnosed with mid-stage non-familial Alzheimer’s disease.
2008: 8th Annual Rachmiel Levine Diabetes Symposium, Newport Beach, California Poster Presentation, January 2008 Lam Ho, Emily Zebadua, Patricia Kao, Tania Urrutia, Chris Orr, Kevin Ferreri, Fouad Kandeel, and Willem Kuhtreiber. Secretion of Injury Factors by Human Islets After Isolation and Hypoxia
2007: 94th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists. Miami Beach, Florida
2007: Poster Presentation, May 2007 Patricia F. Kao, Eric K. Gupta, and Stephen A. O’Barr. Atorvastatin Treatment Decreases Amyloid beta and TNF-alpha levels in Alzheimer’s disease transgenic mice
2006: 10th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders. Madrid, Spain Poster Presentation, July 2006 Patricia F. Kao, James J. Schultz, Bruce T. Lamb and Stephen A. O’Barr. Thyroid Hormone Treatment Decreases Amyloid-beta Levels in Brain of Transgenic Mice

“Modulators of cytoskeletal reorganization in CA1 hippocampal neurons show increased expression in patients at mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease” by Kao PF, Davis DA, Banigan MG, Vanderburg CR, Seshadri S, and Delalle I, PLoSOne, October 2010
Charles R. Vanderburg, David A. Davis, Rachel E. Diamond, Patricia F. Kao, and Ivana Delalle. Capzb2 protein expression in the brains of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and Huntington’s Disease. Translational Neuroscience 1(1) 2010: 55-58.