AD/PD™ 2025 Junior Faculty Awards
Meet the AD/PD™ 2024 Junior Faculty Award Winners
![Diana Acosta Ingram](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Diana-Acosta-Ingram-150x150.png)
Diana Acosta Ingram, United States
Abstract: UNCOVERING THE ROLE OF CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORTER, GRAMD1B, IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF TAU PATHOLOGY.
![Carles Boix](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Carles-Boix-150x150.png)
Carles Boix, United States
Abstract: SINGLE-CELL MULTI-REGION DISSECTION OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE REVEALS SELECTIVELY VULNERABLE NEURONS
![Alessia Caramello](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Alessia-Caramello-150x150.png)
Alessia Caramello, United Kingdom
Abstract: INTRA-NEURONAL ACCUMULATION OF BETA-AMYLOIDS AND PTAU IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS NEURONAL SUBTYPE-SPECIFIC AND CORRELATES WITH SELECTIVE NEURONAL LOSS
![Mackenzie Carlson](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Mackenzie-Carlson-150x150.png)
Mackenzie Carlson, United States
Abstract: MRI-FREE PROCESSING METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF REGIONAL CHANGE IN LONGITUDINAL AND CROSS-SECTIONAL TAU-PET IMAGES
![Isabel Castanho](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Isabel-Castanho-150x150.png)
Isabel Castanho, United States
Abstract: DECIPHERING THE MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR UNDERPINNINGS OF COGNITIVE RESILIENCE IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
![Sidhanth Chandra](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Sidhanth-Chandra-150x150.png)
Sidhanth Chandra, United States
Abstract: GUT MICROBIOME REGULATES REACTIVE ASTROCYTOSIS IN AMYLOIDOSIS
![Fernando Gonzalez](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Fernando-Gonzalez-150x150.png)
Fernando Gonzalez, Sweden
Abstract: DIFFERENTIAL ROLES OF PLASMA P-TAU AND BRAIN-DERIVED TAU IN AD AND RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE DEMENTIAS
![Miriam Hojholt](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Miriam-Hojholt-150x150.png)
Miriam Højholt Terkelsen, Denmark
Abstract: CHOLINERGIC DYSFUNCTION IN THE PARIETAL CORTEX PREDICTS DISEASE PROGRESSION TO LEWY BODY DISEASES IN ISOLATED REM SLEEP BEHAVIOUR DISORDER
![Annie Lee](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Annie-Lee-150x150.png)
Annie Lee, United States
Abstract: GENOME-WIDE GENE-BASED STUDY IN MULTI-ETHNIC COHORTS IDENTIFIES GENES THAT INTERACT WITH VASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE (AD)
![Pamela Martino](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Pamela-Martino-150x150.png)
Pamela Martino-Adami , Germany
Abstract: PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE PLASMA BIOMARKERS IN A LARGE PRIMARY CARE COHORT
![Ivan Martinez](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Ivan-Martinez-143x150.png)
Ivan Martinez-Valbuena, Canada
Abstract: 4R-TAU SEEDING ACTIVITY UNRAVELS MOLECULAR SUBTYPES IN PATIENTS WITH PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY
![Salvatore Mazzeo](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Salvatore-Mazzeo-150x150.png)
Salvatore Mazzeo, Italy
Abstract: MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TO PREDICT PROGRESSION FROM SUBJECTIVE TO OBJECTIVE COGNITIVE DECLINE: A 14-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY
![Sherya Menon](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Sherya-Menon-150x150.png)
Shreya Menon, United States
Abstract: LEVERAGING SINGLE-CELL MULTI-OMIC PROFILING TO INVESTIGATE RARE NONCODING VARIANTS IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
![Anja Ophey](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Anja-Ophey-150x150.jpg)
Anja Ophey, Germany
Abstract: MID- AND LATE-LIFE LIFESTYLE ACTIVITIES AS MAIN DRIVERS OF GENERAL AND DOMAIN-SPECIFIC COGNITIVE RESERVE IN INDIVIDUALS WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE: EVIDENCE FROM THE LANDSCAPE STUDY
![Sebastian Schmidt](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Sebastian-Schmidt-150x150.png)
Sebastian Schmidt, Germany
Abstract: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING A REVERSIBLE STATE OF HYPOMETABOLISM IN SPORADIC PARKINSON’S DISEASE
![Wei Tsai](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Wei-Tsai-150x150.png)
Wei Tsai, United States
Abstract: DISCOVERY OF GENES UNDERLYING COGNITIVE RESILIENCE IN INDIVIDUALS PREDISPOSED TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE RISK
![Monica van den Berg](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Monica-van-den-Berg-150x150.png)
Monica van den Berg, Belgium
Abstract: RECOVERY OF REM SLEEP FRAGMENTATION, HIPPOCAMPAL OSCILLATORY ACTIVITY AND ALTERED CHOLINERGIC SIGNALLING AT PRESYMPTOMATIC STAGES OF AD
![Yi-Ting Wang](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Yi-Ting-Wang-150x150.png)
Yi-Ting Wang, Canada
Abstract: SEX-SPECIFIC MODULATION OF AΒ ON TAU PHOSPHORYLATION UNDERLIES FASTER TANGLE ACCUMULATION IN FEMALE
![Anna Lidia](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Anna-Lidia-122x150.png)
Anna Lidia Wojdała, Italy
Abstract: TARGETING MULTIPHOSPHORYLATED TAU: PLASMA TAU SIMULTANEOUSLY PHOSPHORYLATED AT T217 AND T231 SURPASSES PERFORMANCE OF P-TAU217
![Kristina Xhima](https://adpd.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/2023/11/Kristina-Xhima-150x150.png)
Kristiana Xhima , Canada
Abstract: CEREBROVASCULAR LESIONS WITHIN THE CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM IMPACT COGNITIVE DECLINE ACROSS NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES