Faculty in our department are exploring how inflammation in the nervous system contributes to many acute, chronic, immune and degenerative diseases of the nervous system. From studies involving T cell mediated immunity in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, to study of how innate immune cells, including brain resident microglia and infiltrating monocyte/macrophage, contribute to neuropathology in stroke, leukodystrophy or Alzheimer's disease, our faculty are interrogating various molecular and cellular pathways as future treatment strategies to delay, attenuate and possibly prevent neurological diseases.