Ep_3 - Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains - Brain Health and the New Era of Neurodegenerative Disease Research

Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains' is a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research, and her work is contributing to a paradigm shift in the way we investigate Neurodegenerative disease and design future treatments.One of Malvindar's areas of research is Huntington's Disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the accumulation of a mutated version of the aptly-named protein, Huntingtin. Traditionally, the accumulation of Huntingtin has been thought of as the molecular mechanism by which Huntington manifests. New evidence suggests that this is only the tip of the iceberg.Join us in Episode 2 where Malvindar and I discuss why Huntington's Disease is a model disorder for other neurodegenerative diseases; why there are many different types of mutant Huntingtin protein, ' and why science is yet to identify the "bad guy" variant or variants; and why Malvindar is confident that we will have a breakthrough in treatment of HD in our lifetimes. You can find out more about Malvindar and here research here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/malvindar-singh-bains-49801a226/ https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/fmhs/research/cbr.html https://www.hdyo.co.nz/