Junior Faculty Awards

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!

Leyla Akay, United States

Abstract: APOE4 IMPAIRS MYELINATION VIA CHOLESTEROL DYSREGULATION IN OLIGODENDROCYTES

Cecilia Boccalini, Switzerland       

Abstract: SEX DIFFERENCES IN DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES: AN IMAGING STUDY OF NEUROTRANSMISSION PATHWAYS

Jennifer Cooper, Canada

Abstract: NEUROFILAMENT LIGHT AND GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN CAN DETECT NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS

Roxane Dilcher,  Australia             

Abstract: BIOMARKER INTERPLAY BETWEEN CSF AND 18F-PI-2620 PET IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND 4R-TAUOPATHY

Christoph Gericke, Switzerland       

Abstract: ASSOCIATION OF ADAPTIVE IMMUNE PATTERNS WITH EARLY ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE BIOMARKER ALTERATIONS

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

Jonathan Hasselmann, United States    

Abstract: ALTERATIONS IN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LANDSCAPE AND CHROMATIN STRUCTURE DRIVE THE HUMAN MICROGLIA RESPONSE TO AMYLOID PATHOLOGY

Fiona Heeman, Sweden

Abstract: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN [18F]FLORTAUCIPIR PET VISUAL PATTERNS AND NEURODEGENERATION

Pengfei Hou, Belgium               

Abstract: THE Γ-SECRETASE SUBSTRATE PROTEOME REVEALS THE ROLE OF REGULATED INTRAMEMBRANE PROTEOLYSIS IN MAINTAINING MICROGLIA CELL STATES

Miguel Labrador-Espinosa, Spain    

Abstract: ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN CHOLINERGIC BASAL FOREBRAIN DEGENERATION, CORTICAL HYPOMETABOLISM, AND COGNITIVE DEFICITS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Emma Luckett, Belgium               

Abstract: WEIGHTED GENE CO-EXPRESSION NETWORK ANALYSIS DETECTS CHANGES IN THE PERIPHERAL BLOOD TRANSCRIPTOME IN ASYMPTOMATIC ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

Kate Onuska, Canada

Abstract: A TRANSLATIONAL MULTIMODAL PLATFORM FOR IMAGING FOREBRAIN CHOLINERGIC DYSFUNCTION IN MICE AND HUMANS

Samira Parhizkar, United States    

Abstract: SLEEP DEPRIVATION EXACERBATES MICROGLIAL REACTIVITY AND AMYLOID-Β DEPOSITION IN A TREM2-DEPENDENT FASHION

Federica Rey, Italy       

Abstract: IDENTIFICATION OF A NOVEL PATHWAY IN SPORADIC AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MEDIATED BY THE LONG NON-CODING RNA ZEB1-AS1

Olivia Rifai, United Kingdom              

Abstract: MOLECULAR SIGNATURES OF NEUROINFLAMMATION IN PATIENT TISSUE ACROSS SPORADIC, SOD1 AND C9ORF72-ALS COHORTS

Aitana Sogorb Esteve, United Kingdom              

Abstract: A NEW HORIZON FOR FLUID BIOMARKERS IN GENETIC FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA: AN UNBIASED PROTEOMICS STUDY

Johannes Trambauer, Germany            

Abstract: HETEROZYGOSITY REVERSES GAMMA-SECRETASE MODULATOR RESISTANCE OF AN AGGRESSIVE ALZHEIMER-CAUSING PRESENILIN MUTANT

Irem Ulku, Canada

Abstract: SCREENING OF PROTEASES INVOLVED IN AMYLOID-BETA 34 DEGRADATION – A POTENTIAL EARLY BIOMARKER OF AD PROGRESSION

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.

Yang Yang, United Kingdom              

Abstract: STRUCTURES OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN FILAMENTS FROM HUMAN BRAINS WITH LEWY PATHOLOGY