Moran Amit

Turning the tables: Repurposing neuroplasticity to defeat cancer

Instead of asking what nerves do to cancer, my work reveals how cancer injures and reprograms peripheral nerves to drive immune evasion and how targeting this process restores immunotherapy responses.

Psilocybin prevents chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy through mitochondrial trafficking preservation

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a disabling, often irreversible toxicity that affects millions of patients, limits life-saving cancer therapy, and lacks proven treatment. In this work, we show that as little as two doses of psilocybin before chemotherapy dura...