Rate My Professor Orly Lazarov

Orly Lazarov is a Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She serves as Program Director of the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Training Program. She earned her PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago.

Her research investigates the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cognition and cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease, with a particular emphasis on hippocampal neurogenesis and experience-induced plasticity in learning and memory function. Studies from her laboratory have examined how hippocampal neurogenesis is affected in Alzheimer’s disease and how lifestyle and environmental factors, including type 2 diabetes and stroke, influence cognitive decline and disease development. Additional work has explored molecular signaling pathways, such as those involving CREB, in the context of Alzheimer’s disease models and patients.