Insufficient efferocytosis has been shown to worsen the outcome of neuroinflammatory diseases such as ischemic stroke and demyelination (Cantoni et al., 2015; Cai et al., 2019) For instance, STAT6 was shown to be activated in microglia of humans and mice that suffered a stroke and enhances efferocytosis, as well as protect neurons from death. Here, STAT6 is linked to ischemic stroke.