Dr. Lotfi Ferhat has been a leading expert in studying the role of the cytoskeleton, including the tau proteins, in neuronal plasticity for more than 30 years, publishing more than 40 papers in international journals. Dr. Lotfi Ferhat was among the first to discover a new Microtubule-Associated Protein 2 named MAP2d (Ferhat et al., 1994), and to show that MAP2d promotes the bundling and stabilization of both microtubules and microfilaments (Ferhat et al., 1996). In recent years, Dr. Lotfi Ferhat has oriented his research towards the fields of neuroinflammation and BBB demise.