Dr Alan Yu

Dr Chien-Hsiung (Alan) Yu is Head of the Neuroinflammation Group at The Florey. Alan obtained his PhD in infection immunology at The University of Queensland in 2015 before being awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Recently, his major discoveries have highlighted the underappreciated importance of the innate immune system in motor neurone disease (MND). With the support of his NHMRC Investigator Grant, Alan established an independent group at The Florey in early 2022.

At The Florey, Alan seeks to build a comprehensive map of neurodegenerative disease gene signatures and elucidate how these inflammatory signals triggered by abnormal protein aggregation (i.e. tau and TDP-43) lead to neurodegeneration in dementias and MND. Moreover, Dr Yu is interested in uncovering the etiological link between infection and early onset of these diseases.