AFAR congratulates 2022 grantee Miranda Orr, PhD, on her lab being named the first-ever Bruker Spatial Biology Center of Excellence. The Orr lab focuses on the role of cellular senescence in brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s.
Dr. Orr is a 2022 Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awards in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research recipient. Her AFAR-supported research explored “Spatial proteogenomic profiling to determine the impact of senescent neurons on the aging brain.”
This partnership between the Orr lab and Bruker Spatial Biology will provide the researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis access to state-of-the-art spatial omics platforms as well as the research and development team of Bruker Spatial Biology.
In a news article from Washington University in St. Louis’ Department of Neurology, Dr. Orr speaks on the impact of access to this revolutionary technology: “It’s about helping to shape the direction of these technologies —identifying the capabilities that academic scientists need, generating the first data of its kind and driving discoveries that will advance the field, particularly in proteomics, which is so crucial to neuroscience research.”
Read a related news article from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Department of Neurology here.
Explore more insights from Dr. Orr in our Grantee Spotlight Interview here.
