Junior Faculty Awards
SUBMISSION IS CLOSED AND WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED IN NOVEMBER 2023
For every edition of the AD/PD™ International Conference the Organizing Committee recognizes 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 Conference.
The applications for the 2024 Junior Faculty Awards are open until September 20, 2023.
Application is through the abstract submission system.
*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)
2024 JUNIOR FACULTY AWARDS WINNERS
![Diana Acosta Ingram](https://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/Sidhanth-Chandra-150x150.png)
Sidhanth Chandra, United States
Abstract: GUT MICROBIOME REGULATES REACTIVE ASTROCYTOSIS IN AMYLOIDOSIS
![Fernando Gonzalez](https://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/Sebastian-Schmidt-150x150.png)
Sebastian Schmidt, Germany
Abstract: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING A REVERSIBLE STATE OF HYPOMETABOLISM IN SPORADIC PARKINSON’S DISEASE
![Wei Tsai](https://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/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://adpd2024.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2023/11/Kristina-Xhima-150x150.png)
Kristiana Xhima , Canada
Abstract: CEREBROVASCULAR LESIONS WITHIN THE CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM IMPACT COGNITIVE DECLINE ACROSS NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES