Anna Victoria Molofsky is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Her lab studies how brain connections form in early life, during learning and in the setting of aging and diseases. Her group is particularly interested in how molecules in the immune system and the extracellular matrix affect brain function. Molofsky earned her M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and completed her postdoctoral work and adult psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco.
Anna Victoria Molofsky
Associate professor of psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
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Cracking the code of the extracellular matrix
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Anna Victoria Molofsky
17 January 2025 | 5 min read
Selected articles
- “Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote inhibitory synapse development and social behavior” | Science
- “Type-I-interferon-responsive microglia shape cortical development and behavior” | Cell
- “Microglial remodeling of the extracellular matrix promotes synapse plasticity” | Cell
- “Astrocyte-derived interleukin-33 promotes microglial synapse engulfment and neural circuit development” | Science
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