I worked on this project with Anthony Bishara and Professor Yang over the summer. The topic we've worked on are the cellular and molecular mechanisms that protect against cancer and neurodegeneration. Particularly, this is important because these conditions ruin and take away the independence of many people throughout the world, so how did we approach this? First, to better understand how to treat and prevent neurodegenerative diseases and cancer we have to understand these disease on a cellular and molecular level. This is, we've covered topics from protein folding and misfolding, protein quality control, and degredation systems for disposal of aberrant proteins. We then looked into Alzheimer's and the guardian of the genome, p53. By gaining a better understanding of these mechanisms, we help improve the quality of life for many people.