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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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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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
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A collaboration highlight featuring 2021 alumni’s Vicky Yao & Rodney Ritzel!
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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
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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
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