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.
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 …
Andrea Weinstein, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google Dr. Weinstein is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and a Pennsylvania-licensed clinical psychologist specializing in neuropsychology. She has extensive experience conducting neuropsychological evaluations both in clinical and research settings. Her expertise is in evaluation and diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders in mid to late life, including mild cognitive impairment, dementias, …
Vicky Yao, PhD Twitter Google There has been considerable progress in our understanding of genetics since the sequencing of the first human genome in the early 2000s. Sequencing and genomic measurement technologies continue to advance, yielding more and more high resolution snapshots of experimental and clinical states. The bottleneck now lies in cleaning, interpreting, and …
Tara Tracy, PhD Twitter Synapses are specialized structures that are critical for the transmission of information between neurons in the brain. Fine-tuning of the electrochemical activity at synapses underlies cognitive processes. In Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss coincides with synapse deterioration. The Tracy lab is investigating the molecular events that lead to synapse dysfunction and cognitive …
Meet the Newest Guest Mentor We are excited to introduce you to our guest mentor for the 11th Annual Charleston Conference on Alzheimers Disease! Dr. Maria de Lourdes Tansey, also known as Malu Tansey has accepted our invite and will join the conference as a mentor alongside other AD giants like Alison Goate, Ralph Nixon …
A collaboration highlight featuring 2021 alumni’s Vicky Yao & Rodney Ritzel!
I was fortunate to be invited to the 2020 Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s disease, at a time when I was struggling to try to get my Alzheimer’s disease research off the ground. I am by nature more of a method developer than a biologist; my PhD was centered on understanding the basic mechanisms of how …
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. Here’s the NIH grants that were awarded to CCAD Alumni.
