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, United States
Abstract: UNCOVERING THE ROLE OF CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORTER, GRAMD1B, IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND SPREAD OF TAU PATHOLOGY.
Carles Boix, United States
Abstract: SINGLE-CELL MULTI-REGION DISSECTION OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE REVEALS SELECTIVELY VULNERABLE NEURONS
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, United States
Abstract: MRI-FREE PROCESSING METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF REGIONAL CHANGE IN LONGITUDINAL AND CROSS-SECTIONAL TAU-PET IMAGES
Isabel Castanho, United States
Abstract: DECIPHERING THE MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR UNDERPINNINGS OF COGNITIVE RESILIENCE IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Sidhanth Chandra, United States
Abstract: GUT MICROBIOME REGULATES REACTIVE ASTROCYTOSIS IN AMYLOIDOSIS
Fernando Gonzalez, Sweden
Abstract: DIFFERENTIAL ROLES OF PLASMA P-TAU AND BRAIN-DERIVED TAU IN AD AND RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE DEMENTIAS
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, 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-Adami , Germany
Abstract: PROGNOSTIC VALUE OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE PLASMA BIOMARKERS IN A LARGE PRIMARY CARE COHORT
Ivan Martinez-Valbuena, Canada
Abstract: 4R-TAU SEEDING ACTIVITY UNRAVELS MOLECULAR SUBTYPES IN PATIENTS WITH PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY
Salvatore Mazzeo, Italy
Abstract: MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TO PREDICT PROGRESSION FROM SUBJECTIVE TO OBJECTIVE COGNITIVE DECLINE: A 14-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY
Shreya Menon, United States
Abstract: LEVERAGING SINGLE-CELL MULTI-OMIC PROFILING TO INVESTIGATE RARE NONCODING VARIANTS IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
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, Germany
Abstract: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING A REVERSIBLE STATE OF HYPOMETABOLISM IN SPORADIC PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Wei Tsai, United States
Abstract: DISCOVERY OF GENES UNDERLYING COGNITIVE RESILIENCE IN INDIVIDUALS PREDISPOSED TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE RISK
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, Canada
Abstract: SEX-SPECIFIC MODULATION OF AΒ ON TAU PHOSPHORYLATION UNDERLIES FASTER TANGLE ACCUMULATION IN FEMALE
Anna Lidia Wojdała, Italy
Abstract: TARGETING MULTIPHOSPHORYLATED TAU: PLASMA TAU SIMULTANEOUSLY PHOSPHORYLATED AT T217 AND T231 SURPASSES PERFORMANCE OF P-TAU217
Kristiana Xhima , Canada
Abstract: CEREBROVASCULAR LESIONS WITHIN THE CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM IMPACT COGNITIVE DECLINE ACROSS NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES