Congratulations to Tom Brett, PhD, and Jennifer Alexander-Brett, MD, PhD, on Receipt of Michael J. Fox Foundation Grant
The Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine is pleased to congratulate Tom Brett, PhD, and Jennifer Alexander-Brett, MD, PhD, on receiving an award from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research in support of their project, Investigating and Targeting TREM2 in Cellular PD Assays.
This grant was awarded through the 2026 T2T Neuroinflammation Target Validation initiative, a program dedicated to accelerating the identification and validation of therapeutic targets in Parkinson’s disease. The award is a testament to the scientific rigor and translational significance of their proposed work.
Their research will investigate TREM2’s role in Parkinson’s disease biology using cellular assays, with the goal of evaluating its potential as a therapeutic target for neuroinflammation.
Both are faculty in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with expertise spanning structural biology, immunology, and translational medicine. This award extends the Division’s research impact and underscores the breadth and cross-disciplinary strength of our faculty’s scholarship.
Please join us in congratulating Drs. Brett and Alexander-Brett on this well-deserved recognition, and in celebrating how their work reflects the Division’s core values of scholarship and collaboration, and our strategic commitment to expanding research impact through interdisciplinary discovery.