Asgar Zaheer
Asgar Zaheer is a neuroscientist and retired Professor of Neurology at the University of Missouri at Columbia and the Emeritus Associate Professor at the University of Iowa.Zaheer was previously a Research Career Scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs for 33 years. His research examines the role of Glia Maturation Factor (GMF) in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration, with a focus on mechanisms associated with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's disease (PD), Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). He has published in journals including ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA'', ''Journal of Biological Chemistry'', ''Journal of Neurochemistry'', ''Brain Research'', ''Biochemistry'', ''Brain, Behavior, and Immunity'', and ''Frontiers in Neuroscience''. Provided by Wikipedia