AlzhEimer's Disease: Next Generation Researchers

 

 

This multi-institutional seminar series highlights team members representing the “next generation” of researchers. Their  work contributes to the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease mechanism, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment.

Logan Dumitrescu, MS, PhD  

Presentation on August 10, 2022

 

 

Sex-specific genetic drivers of Alzheimer’s disease endophenotypes

Logan Dumitrescu, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

Vanderbilt Genetics Institute

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

 

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.

Find Dr. Dumitrescu’s publications here.

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