Alzheimer’s Disease: Next Generation Researchers

AlzhEimer's Disease: Next Generation Researchers

The complexity of research into the genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s requires collaboration across dozens of institutions, including seasoned leaders along with the faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and PhD candidates who make up their teams.

In collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, we have developed a new multi-institutional seminar series highlighting team members who represent the next generation of Alzheimer’s Disease researchers. Their work contributes to the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease mechanism, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment.

Each quarter, we highlight one of our colleague’s work.

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August 10, 2022

Logan Dumitrescu, MS, PhD

Computational Geneticist and Assistant Professor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Sex-specific genetic drivers of Alzheimer’s disease endophenotypes

Please be in touch with Audrey Lynn, PhD, if you would like zoom link information. Audrey.Lynn@case.edu

Logan C. Dumitrescu, MS, PhD, is a computational geneticist and an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She co-leads the Computational Neurogenomics Team at the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center and is an investigator in the Vanderbilt Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute. Dr. Dumitrescu’s research interests focus on the molecular and genetic factors that contribute to risk and resilience from Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Her works often takes an interdisciplinary approach, leveraging biomarker, cognitive, neuroimaging, and ‘omic data sources in the context of large-scale genetic analyses of AD and longitudinal studies of aging. She is also specifically interested in identifying and characterizing sex-specific genetic drivers of AD endophenotypes.