Israel Prize-winning scientist Michal Schwartz of the Weizmann Institute reports that her team is developing an immunotherapy treatment that can slow down aging in the brain.

Schwartz has spent 27 years researching the connection between the aging immune system and the brain.

She is currently working with a global team of researchers who are developing a treatment for the immune system that can help patients reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases that affect the brain.