AimeeWen YiKaoMD

Assistant Professor, Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine

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University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Neurology, 2001 - 2004
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterInternship, Internal Medicine, 2000 - 2001
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of MedicineClass of 2000

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013

PubMed

27 citations
Lifespan-increasing drug nordihydroguaiaretic acid inhibits p300 and activates autophagy.
Tugsan Tezil, Manish Chamoli, Che-Ping Ng, Roman P. Simon, Victoria J. Butler
NPJ Aging and Mechanisms of Disease. 2019-10-02
11 citations
Mutations in α-synuclein, TDP-43 and tau prolong protein half-life through diminished degradation by lysosomal proteases.
Paul J Sampognaro, Shruti Arya, Giselle M Knudsen, Emma L Gunderson, Angelica Sandoval-Perez
Molecular Neurodegeneration. 2023-05-02
166 citations
Progranulin, lysosomal regulation and neurodegenerative disease
Aimee W. Kao, Andrew S. McKay, Param Priya Singh, Anne Brunet, Eric J. Huang
Nature Reviews. Neuroscience. 2017-04-24