Ms. Anthea L. Bell
Research Summary
She is interested in how research can contribute to clinical practice. She is currently studying the efficacy and safety of JAK inhibitors versus infliximab in older adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her prior research investigated neural plasticity in crickets at Bowdoin College and frontotemporal dementia at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
“As I learned about all the signaling pathways that govern neuronal processes, such as sensory perception, learning and memory, and axonal guidance, I became amazed by our bodies’ ability to maintain and regulate so much complexity. I was even more impressed by the scientists who mapped out all these intricate pathways and systems. I'm grateful to the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for supporting my own work in neural plasticity with Dr. Horch.