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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.

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

CCAD Connections We are once again excited to be bringing you CCAD Connections for a third year in a row! There have been so many changes since the last January issue! Thank you Covid! As you know, we had to postpone CCAD 2021, which will now be held in conjunction with CCAD 2022 in Honolulu,

This is the final issue for 2021 where we have the final piece of A Way Forward, and our usual piece on a CCAD Alumni Spotlight.

A Way Forward is a four-part series dedicated to sharing these challenges with the CCAD community, along with ways to help address them and contribute to their resolution.

We believe diversity in ideas leads to better medical research, and to achieve this, it is important to identify and address individual, community and institutional challenges scientists face that hold us back as a community. The third piece is written by Jacqueline Helpern. To read her article click on the button below.

I started my career as a basic neuroscientist studying brain circuit mechanisms related to the sense of smell and then memory. While I was studying on basic research during my PhD, my grandmother started to show symptoms of AD. Even though I got my postdoc training in memory research, I again could not do anything for my grandmother – as no cure existed at that time.