An overview and Q&A session
Free and open to the public
Light lunch will be served

Chenghua Gu
Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School;
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Maria Lehtinen
Hannah C. Kinney MD, Chair in Pediatric Pathology Research, Boston Children’s Hospital;
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Studying the interfaces of the brain, cerebrospinal fluid and blood is vital for understanding how healthy brains function, what goes wrong in disease states, and also how drug delivery works in the nervous system. Dr. Lehtinen will describe the composition and functions of the choroid plexus, a vascular tissue found in the ventricles of the brain that produces CSF and is the site of blood-CSF barrier. Dr. Gu will describe the interdependence of the nervous and vascular systems and the composition and function of the blood-brain barrier.