New Vision Research Focus – Andy Shih There are a lot of things they don’t teach you when you start a laboratory. The honeymoon period after getting a faculty position quickly transitions into a balancing act of business administration, mentoring, and family life, all while trying to conduct the most compelling science of your career
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Therapeutics to protect brain function and mitigate risk for Alzheimer’s disease Did you know that the development of Alzheimer’s disease actually starts in the brain 20 to 30 years before any dementia symptoms appear? This is particularly true for people who carry the Apolipoprotein e4 (APOE4) gene, which is the most significant genetic risk factor
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New Vision Research Progress – Kevin Beier 2020 New Vision Awardee, Kevin Beier presents research progress at this year’s conference 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
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New Vision Research Progress – Miranda Orr 2020 New Vision Awardee, Miranda Orr presents research progress at this year’s conference I am a translational neurobiologist investigating how and why advanced age increases the risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease. My research program spans discovery science to early stage clinical trials. In 2018, my team identified
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April 2023 CCAD Connections We are excited to announce another successful Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease! This year we awarded one grant of $100,000. Since the first CCAD conference in 2013, we have awarded over one-million dollars in funding through the New Vision Awards. The goal of CCAD is to provide a forum for multi-disciplinary
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New Vision Research Focus – Cristian Lasagna-Reeves March 1st, 2017, was one of the most important days of my scientific career: I officially opened my laboratory at Indiana University School of Medicine. On March 2nd, I flew to Charleston, South Carolina, to participate in the 5th annual CCAD, my first meeting as an independent investigator.
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2023 New Vision Awardee – Christina B. Young I am a clinician-scientist with expertise in neuropsychology, neuroimaging, and statistics. I am dedicated to identifying real-world declines in cognition that track with the pathological changes due to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. I am especially interested in identifying novel approaches of objectively tracking cognitive change in
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New Vision Research Highlight – Dr. Miranda Orr 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 Congratulations to 2020 CCAD Alumni, Dr. Miranda Orr! Dr. Orr’s research studying senescent cells in
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