Emma Danhash

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Celeste M. Karch, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of California-Irvine, 2020

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Dissecting MS4A4A function in microglia and its role in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis

Graduate publications
Iyer AK, Vermunt L, Mirfakhar FS, Minaya M, Acquarone M, Koppisetti RK, Renganathan A, You SF, Danhash EP, Schache KJ, Verbeck A, Galasso G, Lee SM, Huang G, Miller KJ, Marsh J, Nana AL, Spina S, Seeley WW, Grinberg LT, Temple S, Teunissen CE, Sato C, Karch CM. 2025 Cell autonomous microglia defects in a stem cell model of frontotemporal dementia tau. Mol Psychiatry, 30(10):4776-91. PMCID: PMC12436154

Danhash EP, Verbeck AC, Western D, Díaz-Pacheco AS, Galasso G, You SF, Huang G, Starr E, Miller N, Nadarajah CJ, Tiemann Powles S, Musiek ES, Herz J, Iyer AK, Cirrito J, Cruchaga C, Karch CM. 2025 Ms4a4a deficiency ameliorates plaque pathology in a mouse model of amyloid accumulation. Alzheimers Dement, 21(8):e70580. PMCID: PMC12371455