Researcher Highlight Q&A: Ukpong Eyo, PhD, Microglia, the Brain's Immune Cells

Ukpong Eyo, PhD, is a UVA Health researcher looking into the action of the brain's own immune cells, microglia.

As the leader of his own lab at UVA Health's Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG), his research focuses on understanding microglial activity in neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental pathologies. Through this research, he hopes to identify how microglia regulate normal brain development and determine their reactivity and contributions during abnormal brain development, acute injury, or disease.

See Eyo's research interests and selected publications, and below, Eyo discusses his work and gives his answers to our Researcher Highlight questions: