She is the Harold and Bernice Davis Professor in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and holds appointments in the departments of chemistry and biochemistry.

She became the Harold and Bernice Davis Professor in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at Brandeis University in 2006.

She served as an advisor for the TV mini-series documentary The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements.

Her recent work has centered on understanding the functions of proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's, and Parkinson's.

[4] She has also discovered potential new drugs to stop the protein aggregation that leads to Alzheimer's disease.