I am an Assistant Professor of Pathology at UT Health San Antonio, a board-certified neuropathologist, Co-Director of the Biggs Institute Brain Bank and Neuropathology Core Leader at the South Texas Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC). My research has focused on PART, as well as resistance and resilience to AD. We are using spatial metabolomics in this study, comparing AD to gliomas, knowing that their occurrence appears to be diametrically opposed. We are interested in understanding this inverse relationship in order to identify protective pathways for either disease.