Current Research Scholars
These awards are aimed at junior faculty within the first five years of their appointment. Exceptions are possible for mid-level faculty entering the field of dementia research.
Award Year 5/01/2023 - 4/30/2024
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Wanwan Xu, PhD: "Advances Statistical Analysis on Predicting Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease"
- Joao Pereira, PhD: "Unbiased identification of phenotypes specific to Frontotemporal Dementia using induced pluripotent stem cell models"
- Gita Pathak, PhD: "Hippocampus and amygdala transcriptomic signatures of recent depression episode in Alzheimer's disease patients"
- Yeongho Kim, PhD: "Sphingomyelin-to-y-secretase molecular interaction in Alzheimer's disease"
Award Year 5/01/2022 - 4/30/2023
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Yifei Cai, PhD: "Molecular mechansms of axonal pathology in Alzheimer's disease human neurons"
- Sathish Ramakrishnan, PhD: "Mechanism of exocytosis protein in Alzheimer's disease"
- Dibyadeep Datta: "Interrogating the molecular mechanisms mediating the emergence of biomarker pT217-tau in AD"