Valentina Fossati, PhD profile page

Dr. Fossati is Senior Research Investigator at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute, where she focuses on advancing preclinical studies of neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disorders, using human iPSC-derived cell models. Dr. Fossati established protocols to generate oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, microglia, and neuronal cell types, and is developing organoids and co-culture systems to identify and target the key pathogenic mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration and/or demyelination in progressive multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and other diseases of the central nervous system.