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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Prior to CCAD, we did not know of each other’s work. At the time, Rodney was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has an extensive background in sophisticated experimental techniques for disease modeling and therapeutic development, specializing in brain aging and neuroimmunology. Meanwhile, Vicky had recently started a position …
Collaboration Highlight – Vicky Yao and Rodney Ritzel Read More »
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.
CCAD Connections We are excited to share with you the highlights from the 10th Annual CCAD in Hawaii! We had a successful conference and wanted to share with you what you missed if you could not attend. We are also excited to share with you that we are planning to host a reunion style conference in …
