
Brandon Holmes, MD, PhD
Brandon Holmes, MD, PhD, is a Memory and Aging Center clinical fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He is currently in the laboratory of James A. Wells, PhD, where he studies how microglia, the innate immune cells of the central nervous system, alter their proteome in the context of neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation.
He graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and earned his MD/PhD degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. His dissertation work focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms that govern the cellular internalization and transmission of tau aggregates from neuron to neuron. He completed his neurology residency at UCSF in 2021.
Brandon spends his free time hiking, playing drums, traveling, and BBQing with his family.