Dr. Lisa M. Munter is a recipient of the ASRP grant in the biomedical stream. Dr. Munter is a researcher and professor at McGill University in Quebec. She will be investigating a novel aspect of the cholesterol metabolism with respect to Alzheimer’s disease. The aim is to understand how dietary cholesterol affects generation of harmful amyloid peptides. She hopes to reveal whether certain lipoprotein particles of the blood may trigger amyloid generation in the brain.

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