Sarah Hopp, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google I am an early career investigator in the process of starting my research laboratory as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. I am highly motivated to build a cutting-edge research program investigating the role of microglia, the immune cells of the […]
Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD Linkedin X-twitter Google Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She serves as Director of Fluid Biomarker Research at the Barbara and Maurice Deane Center for Wellness
Kei Igarashi, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google Throughout my career, a central direction of my research has been to understand how interactions between multiple brain regions give rise to behavior. To this end, I have been pursuing research using olfactory perception and memory as model behaviors, and investigating cellular and circuit mechanisms that support such behaviors.
Brian Gordon, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google My goal as a researcher is to understand the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). No one measure provides a thorough characterization of the AD disease trajectory. Instead, a multidimensional approach is needed to integrate intersecting measures of biology and cognition. In my work I regularly study healthy aging and
Victoria Fernandez Linkedin Google I have a long and wide expertise in the field of genetics that goes back to 2005 when I performed my first population genetic studies using microsatellite data. As graduate student, I explored different techniques, Sanger sequencing and short sequence repeats, and I gained a deep understanding on the field of
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Laura Clarke, PhD Twitter Linkedin My long-term research goal is to contribute to our understanding of how glia regulate thedevelopment and function of the nervous system, and how these mechanisms go awry in disease. My interest in glia began during my PhD in David Attwell’s lab at University College London. I focused on investigating the
Shea Andrews, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google Dr. Andrews is an Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco. He is a genetic epidemiologist interested in the role of both genetic and non-genetic risk factors in the development of Alzheimer’s disease in diverse populations. His research is focused on three major research areas: 1) identifying
Rachel Bennett, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google I am a post-doctoral researcher at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) with expertise in cellular neuroscience and Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout my academic career my research interests have spanned three key areas providing me with a comprehensive background in 1) pathways of neurodegeneration 2) inflammation and the immune
Kristine Wilkens, PhD Linkedin Twitter Google The goal of our study is to test in older adults with subjective cognitive decline, whether a single session of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is associated with 1) increases in deep, slow-wave sleep, 2) improvements in overnight memory consolidation and executive function, and 3) determine whether cognitive improvements are
Tyler Ulland, PhD Linkedin Google I am an immunologist focused on the innate immune system and in particular tissue macrophages and related cells. I completed both my MS and my PhD at the University of Iowa under the direction of Drs. William Nauseef and Fayyaz Sutterwala respectively. During both my MS and PhD research I
