Postdoctoral Scientists

Daan van Kruining is a Postdoctoral Silverstein Fellow in the Platt lab and is working in collaboration with Prof. Mina Ryten at the University of Cambridge and UCL. He holds a master’s degree in Fundamental Neuroscience and gained international research experience in Fukuoka, Japan, before completing his PhD at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where he studied lipids as biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease. His current research focuses on sphingolipid metabolism in Parkinson’s disease (PD), particularly in the context of glucocerebrosidase (GBA) mutations. Daan leverages advanced HPLC methods to measure glycosphingolipids and uses bioinformatics to explore the expression of enzymes and cofactors involved in sphingolipid metabolism in GBA-PD