Junior Faculty Awards - AD/PD™ 2024

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 NEURONSAlessia 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 LOSSMackenzie Carlson, United States

Abstract: MRI-FREE PROCESSING METHODS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF REGIONAL CHANGE IN LONGITUDINAL AND CROSS-SECTIONAL TAU-PET IMAGESIsabel Castanho, United States

Abstract: DECIPHERING THE MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR UNDERPINNINGS OF COGNITIVE RESILIENCE IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASESidhanth Chandra, United States

Abstract: GUT MICROBIOME REGULATES REACTIVE ASTROCYTOSIS IN AMYLOIDOSISFernando Gonzalez, Sweden

Abstract: DIFFERENTIAL ROLES OF PLASMA P-TAU AND BRAIN-DERIVED TAU IN AD AND RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE DEMENTIASMiriam Højholt Terkelsen, Denmark

Abstract: CHOLINERGIC DYSFUNCTION IN THE PARIETAL CORTEX PREDICTS DISEASE PROGRESSION TO LEWY BODY DISEASES IN ISOLATED REM SLEEP BEHAVIOUR DISORDERAnnie 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 COHORTIvan Martinez-Valbuena, Canada

Abstract: 4R-TAU SEEDING ACTIVITY UNRAVELS MOLECULAR SUBTYPES IN PATIENTS WITH PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSYSalvatore Mazzeo, Italy

Abstract: MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TO PREDICT PROGRESSION FROM SUBJECTIVE TO OBJECTIVE COGNITIVE DECLINE: A 14-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDYShreya Menon, United States

Abstract: LEVERAGING SINGLE-CELL MULTI-OMIC PROFILING TO INVESTIGATE RARE NONCODING VARIANTS IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASEAnja 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 STUDYSebastian Schmidt, Germany

Abstract: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING A REVERSIBLE STATE OF HYPOMETABOLISM IN SPORADIC PARKINSON’S DISEASEWei Tsai, United States

Abstract: DISCOVERY OF GENES UNDERLYING COGNITIVE RESILIENCE IN INDIVIDUALS PREDISPOSED TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE RISKMonica van den Berg, Belgium

Abstract: RECOVERY OF REM SLEEP FRAGMENTATION, HIPPOCAMPAL OSCILLATORY ACTIVITY AND ALTERED CHOLINERGIC SIGNALLING AT PRESYMPTOMATIC STAGES OF ADYi-Ting Wang, Canada

Abstract: SEX-SPECIFIC MODULATION OF AΒ ON TAU PHOSPHORYLATION UNDERLIES FASTER TANGLE ACCUMULATION IN FEMALEAnna Lidia Wojdała, Italy

Abstract: TARGETING MULTIPHOSPHORYLATED TAU: PLASMA TAU SIMULTANEOUSLY PHOSPHORYLATED AT T217 AND T231 SURPASSES PERFORMANCE OF P-TAU217Kristiana Xhima , Canada

Abstract: CEREBROVASCULAR LESIONS WITHIN THE CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM IMPACT COGNITIVE DECLINE ACROSS NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASESFULL PROGRAM HERE VIEW ALL SPEAKERS