Maha Bakhuraysah
Taif University, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Maha Bakhuraysah has her expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. Her research focuses on the role of the Nogo receptor in multiple sclerosis, she and her team are working on Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE). Previous data has mentioned that there was no new role associated with Nogo receptor, thus she focused on the immunological arm in this model and discovered the existence of B-cells expressing NgR in EAE. It has been published recently that in MS patients’ B cells are localized in the brain, which she and her team found it in mice. The studies haven't mentioned anything about the Nogo receptor, but she and her team found them too.