Student

Praveena Prasad

Graduate Student

Adviser: Melanie McReynolds

Email pjp5609@psu.edu
Pronouns She/Her

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences IGDP

August 01, 2025

HGSAC co-chairs recognized for symposium success

Researchers discovered that by blocking a specific enzyme called indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1, or IDO1 for short, they could rescue memory and brain function in models that mimic Alzheimer’s disease. Pictured from right to left: Melanie Reynolds, Penn State’s Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Chair in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Praveena Prasad, doctoral candidate at Penn State, Brenita Jenkins, lab manager and research scientist at Penn State. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

August 22, 2024

Cancer drug could treat early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, study shows

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