Faces of CCAD 2023 Meet the faces of CCAD 2023! Representing 12 universities from around the country and chosen from a pool of over 80 applicants, we are excited to introduce you to the CCAD 2023 attendees. How familiar are you with your fellow researchers? Can you match the researcher to the title of the project […]
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New Vision Research Focus – Swati Rane I am an imaging research scientist and I develop novel imaging methods, as well as analyses to better understand AD pathogenesis. My New Vision Award in 2015 jump started my research career and allowed me to build upon my research ideas and pursue them to eventually become an
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CCAD Connections January 2023 We are excited to bring you the CCAD Connections for a fourth year in a row! In this issue you will find the 2023 Faces of CCAD, a New Vision Research Focus, alumni spotlight, and job opportunities.
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New Vision Research Highlight – Dr. Ralph Nixon Photo credit: The researcher Ralph Nixon points to an abnormal blob amid the brain tissue of an Alzheimer’s patient in a microscopy image taken in the 1990s. –Karen Dias for Quanta Magazine Leonard Litwin Scholar and CCAD Mentor, Dr. Ralph Nixon, was recently recognized for his research and
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Malú Tansey, PhD Linkedin Twitter Maria de Lourdes (Malú) was born in El Paso, Texas and attended Loretto Academy high school. Dr. Tansey obtained her B.S/M.S in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Cell Regulation from UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX followed by post-doctoral work in neurorscience at Washington University Medical School.
Joseph Helpern, PhD Joseph, A. Helpern, Ph.D. is the founder of the Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease. He has been involved with the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) since the inception of the field focusing mainly in the area of neurodegenerative disorders. His most current research involves the development of diffusional kurtosis imaging, a
Karen E. Duff, PhD Twitter Prof Karen Duff is a leader in the field of neurodegenerative disease having first started her career as a PhD student in the Cambridge department of Nobel Prize winner Sydney Brenner. Prof Duff has worked for over 30 years on Alzheimer’s disease and the tauopathies, for which she was awarded
Congratulations to 2023 CCAD Attendees The upcoming CCAD 2023 attendees have been selected! They are: Emily Paolillo, Carmen Romero Molina, Tiffany Hensley-McBain, Swathi Gujral, Gillian Coughlan, Peter Millar, Dah-eun Chung, Omonigho Michael Bubu, Charisse Winston, Aleksandra Wojtas, Christina Young, Heather Wilkins, Abhirami Kannan Iyer, Ashley Sanderlin, Maria V. Sanchez-Mico.
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CCAD Connections We hope this letter finds you well! We are looking forward to hosting the 2023 conference in Travel & Leisure’s best American city for its tenth year in a row, Charleston, SC. Additionally, the Hawaii reunion conference was such a success that we are looking to do a reunion conference every three years
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