2021

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

Miranda Good, PhD Linkedin Twitter Miranda Good completed her PhD in Physiological Sciences at the University of Arizona. Her graduate research in Dr. Janis Burt’s Lab focused on the role of vascular connexins, Cx37 and Cx40, in regulation of proliferation and inflammation. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular

Maj-Linda B. Selenica, PhD Linkedin Facebook  Currently Dr. Selenica lab’s research is focused on molecular pathways and therapeutic approaches toward neurodegenerative disease; especially Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias. They have established an impressive tool kit of molecular biology tool, cellular models, antibodies etc to study the impact of post-translational modifications involved in tau and TDP-43

Rodney Ritzel, PhD Google Dr. Ritzel conducted his graduate studies in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Connecticut Health Center and obtained his PhD in 2016.  He then pursued postdoctoral training at the Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, where he studied neuroimmune

Ke Zhang, PhD The Cellular Stress in Neurodegeneration Laboratory of Ke Zhang, Ph.D., uses the power of genetics, biochemistry, cell biology and neuroscience to understand the cellular and molecular basis of neurodegeneration and to develop therapeutic approaches. His laboratory focuses on two major questions: How do different pathophysiological defects interconnect to drive pathogenesis in neurodegeneration?