Affiliation: Boise State University

Dr. Nilufar Ali is an Assistant Research Professor at Boise State University, where her research centers on neurodegenerative diseases, space neurobiology, and drug discovery. Her work emphasizes the critical roles of mitochondrial dysfunction, loss of proteostasis, and cellular stress responses. Using interdisciplinary and multi-omics approaches, she explores how age-related molecular changes drive disease progression and how this knowledge can be leveraged for targeted drug development.