Message from the Director Alzheimer’s disease research is a year-round activity. Our fall newsletter finishes telling the story of our investigators’ busy summer, including playing active roles at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Philadelphia (p1). That conference was replete with presentations that drew major headlines (p 3), and some of the researchers who drew such headlines joined us at our 35th Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference (p6). This conference, co-sponsored with the Alzheimer’s Association and Alzheimer’s Orange County, traditionally features visiting faculty as well as our UCI talent, and this year was no exception. Our investigators remain…
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https://www.bio.uci.edu/uci-scientists-unveil-new-clues-to-alzheimers-disease-through-innovative-brain-analysis/
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Frank LaFerla, PhD The Orange County Business Journal named Frank LaFerla, PhD, Dean of the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences, as one of the OC500 for Education. Read the recognition here
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Since 2017, UCI MIND has partnered with the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) at Cleveland Clinic, founded by Maria Shriver, to fund the Women’s Initiative. The initiative provides funding for research to better understand why women are at higher risk than men of developing Alzheimer’s disease. This year, the UCI MIND WAM at Cleveland Clinic Women’s Initiative is proud to support two exceptional investigators at UCI with groundbreaking research projects: Dr. María Corrada, Professor of Neurology in the School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Joe C. Wen School of Public Health, will explore "Estrogen Replacement Therapy and…
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An article in the New York Times is the latest to highlight the safety risks associated with recently approved new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, lecanemab and donanemab. Being a carrier of the e4 genotype for the apolipoprotein (APOE) gene, is a known risk factor for the most serious side effects of these medications—swelling and bleeding in the brain collectively known as Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA). The article highlights that in some of the earlier studies of these drugs, participants were not given the opportunity to learn their APOE genotypes. The field has historically been reluctant to disclose APOE results…
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RAMP trainees stand next to Dr. Lorna Carlin (middle). The Daily Breeze, a local Southern California online news source, highlighted the Research and Mentorship Program (RAMP), a collaborative training initiative between UCI MIND and the UCI School of Medicine to pair 2nd year medical students with faculty studying neurodegenerative diseases. The goal is to inspire future clinicians to pursue research and to specialize in neurology and geriatrics. The program is supported by Dr. Lorna Carlin and Hilarity for Charity, a non-profit organization started by Laura Miller-Rogen and Seth Rogen. Read the article here
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Dr. Vivek Swarup, associate professor of Neurobiology and Behavior and UCI MIND faculty member, was quoted this week in the popular online Alzheimer's disease publication, AlzForum, regarding 4 new AD risk genes that have been identified.
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We are excited to announce that in January 2025, Dr. Crystal M. Glover will join UCI MIND as the ADRC's Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core Leader. She will also serve as Associate Professor of Neurology in the UC Irvine School of Medicine. Dr. Glover is a world-renowned applied social psychologist, mixed methodologist, and health disparities researcher focused on social determinants of health as it relates to aging and dementia. Along with her many international and national leadership roles, Dr. Glover is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Alzheimer's and Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging. She will continue the important work she started…
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Message from the Director Dear Friends of UCI MIND, This summer, we lost our founder, Dr. Carl Cotman. Under Dr. Cotman’s leadership, UCI became an independent ADRC in 2000. He recruited many of UCI’s most prominent researchers and leaders, such as David Cribbs, Claudia Kawas, and Frank LaFerla. He also lured UCI researchers into collaborative work on dementia, such as Andrea Tenner, Ira Lott, and Marcelo Wood. He launched the Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference, now in its 35th year; secured the Neurobiology of Aging NIH training grant, now in its 41st year; and established the UCI ADRC brain…
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https://pennmemorycenter.org/breaking-the-tyranny-of-treatment-a-new-perspective-on-alzheimers-care/
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