Cana Park, who just joined the Biology Faculty, is the newest member of the neuroscience community at UMass. Cana (pronounced Kay-nuh) was a postdoc at UCSF, where she made a fundamental discovery about a factor secreted by platelets that slows cognitive decline associated with aging. She will be pursuing this line of research and ways to translate it into therapeutic treatments. Her lab is in the Life Sciences Laboratory and she is looking for students to join her.