Melissa Kinkaid: New Insights into Pediatric Stroke and Neuroinflammation from Kuan and Sun Labs
Melissa Kinkaid, Senior Scientist in Oligonucleotide Chemistry at Eli Lilly and Company, shared on LinkedIn about a recent article she and her colleagues co-authored, published in bioRxiv, adding:
”Excited to share a new preprint from the Kuan and Sun labs on pediatric stroke and neuroinflammation!
The study identifies new inflammatory pathways and potential therapeutic targets to reduce brain injury after stroke.
Congratulations to the authors and collaborators who made this work possible!
Grateful to have contributed alongside such a talented team.”
Title: Meningeal neutrophil infiltration drives inflammation-exacerbated pediatric stroke through IL-36γ signaling
Authors: Ching-Wen Chen, Hong-Ru Chen, Yi-Min Kuo, Alyson Prorock, Yongde Bao, Jonah Short-Miller, Melissa M. Kinkaid, Katia Sol-Church, Chia-Yi Kuan, Yu-Yo Sun

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