Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Venus Hagan

October 22, 2026

Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD (faculty)

"Switching of transcriptional control from IRF2 to IRF1 drives innate immune cell activation"

Cadena C, Reja R, Bolech E, Webster JD, Kameswaran V, et al. (2026). Switching of transcriptional control from interferon regulatory factor 2 to interferon regulatory factor 1 drives innate immune cell activation. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.049 

Venus Hagan (student)

"Aberrant excitatory neuronal ERBB4 promotes Alzheimer's Disease Pathology" 

Lee, S.Y., Park, E., Lee, HE. et al. Aberrant excitatory neuronal ERBB4 promotes Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10964-z  

Coaches: Biswa Ramani, MD, PhD and Sarah Kaufman, MD, PhD

Moderators: Jack Reid & Mina Takegami

Location: HSW-302, Parnassus & MH-1405, Mission Bay