Junior Faculty Awards
The Organizing Committee of AD/PD™ 2023 recognized the top junior and trainee abstract presenters with Junior Faculty Awards.
Recipients of this award will give an oral presentation on their research during the 2023 Conference.
**Eligible candidates for the Junior Faculty Awards are graduate students (PhD, MD) or junior scientists up to five years after the doctorate degree (PhD, MD)
Congratulations to the 2023 winners!
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Leyla Akay, United States
Abstract: APOE4 IMPAIRS MYELINATION VIA CHOLESTEROL DYSREGULATION IN OLIGODENDROCYTES
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Cecilia Boccalini, Switzerland
Abstract: SEX DIFFERENCES IN DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES: AN IMAGING STUDY OF NEUROTRANSMISSION PATHWAYS
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Jennifer Cooper, Canada
Abstract: NEUROFILAMENT LIGHT AND GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN CAN DETECT NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS
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Roxane Dilcher, Australia
Abstract: BIOMARKER INTERPLAY BETWEEN CSF AND 18F-PI-2620 PET IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND 4R-TAUOPATHY
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Christoph Gericke, Switzerland
Abstract: ASSOCIATION OF ADAPTIVE IMMUNE PATTERNS WITH EARLY ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE BIOMARKER ALTERATIONS
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Verena Haage, United States
Abstract: TOWARDS MODULATING HUMAN MICROGLIAL SUBTYPES AND MITOTYPES IN DISEASE: DEVELOPING A PHARMACOLOGICAL TOOLKIT TO POLARIZE MICROGLIA IN A TARGETED FASHION
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Jonathan Hasselmann, United States
Abstract: ALTERATIONS IN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LANDSCAPE AND CHROMATIN STRUCTURE DRIVE THE HUMAN MICROGLIA RESPONSE TO AMYLOID PATHOLOGY
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Fiona Heeman, Sweden
Abstract: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN [18F]FLORTAUCIPIR PET VISUAL PATTERNS AND NEURODEGENERATION
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Pengfei Hou, Belgium
Abstract: THE Γ-SECRETASE SUBSTRATE PROTEOME REVEALS THE ROLE OF REGULATED INTRAMEMBRANE PROTEOLYSIS IN MAINTAINING MICROGLIA CELL STATES
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Miguel Labrador-Espinosa, Spain
Abstract: ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CHOLINERGIC BASAL FOREBRAIN DEGENERATION, CORTICAL HYPOMETABOLISM, AND COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
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Emma Luckett, Belgium
Abstract: WEIGHTED GENE CO-EXPRESSION NETWORK ANALYSIS DETECTS CHANGES IN THE PERIPHERAL BLOOD TRANSCRIPTOME IN ASYMPTOMATIC ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
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Kate Onuska, Canada
Abstract: A TRANSLATIONAL MULTIMODAL PLATFORM FOR IMAGING FOREBRAIN CHOLINERGIC DYSFUNCTION IN MICE AND HUMANS
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Samira Parhizkar, United States
Abstract: SLEEP DEPRIVATION EXACERBATES MICROGLIAL REACTIVITY AND AMYLOID-Β DEPOSITION IN A TREM2-DEPENDENT FASHION
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Federica Rey, Italy
Abstract: IDENTIFICATION OF A NOVEL PATHWAY IN SPORADIC AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MEDIATED BY THE LONG NON-CODING RNA ZEB1-AS1
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Olivia Rifai, United Kingdom
Abstract: MOLECULAR SIGNATURES OF NEUROINFLAMMATION IN PATIENT TISSUE ACROSS SPORADIC, SOD1 AND C9ORF72-ALS COHORTS
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Aitana Sogorb Esteve, United Kingdom
Abstract: A NEW HORIZON FOR FLUID BIOMARKERS IN GENETIC FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA: AN UNBIASED PROTEOMICS STUDY
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Johannes Trambauer, Germany
Abstract: HETEROZYGOSITY REVERSES GAMMA-SECRETASE MODULATOR RESISTANCE OF AN AGGRESSIVE ALZHEIMER-CAUSING PRESENILIN MUTANT
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Irem Ulku, Canada
Abstract: SCREENING OF PROTEASES INVOLVED IN AMYLOID-BETA 34 DEGRADATION – A POTENTIAL EARLY BIOMARKER OF AD PROGRESSION
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Inge Verberk, Netherlands
Abstract: THE MASTERMIND OF THE ALZHEIMER’S BLOOD-BASED BIOMARKERS: DEVELOPMENT OF CUTOFFS AND A VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR USE IN CLINICAL DEMENTIA PRACTICE.
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Yang Yang, United Kingdom
Abstract: STRUCTURES OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN FILAMENTS FROM HUMAN BRAINS WITH LEWY PATHOLOGY