Training in Translational ADRD Neuroscience (TITAN) T-32

Dr. Head studied at the University of Toronto, Canada where she obtained her BSc, MA, and PhD in neuroscience in 1997 before moving to the University of California, Irvine and completing postdoctoral training in MIND. Until 2009, Dr. Head served as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Brain Tissue Repository for the UCI Alzheimer disease research center at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Head then became a Professor and Associate Director of Education at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders Brown Center on Aging where she established a Down syndrome aging and Alzheimer disease research study. In 2019, Dr. Head returned to the University of California, Irvine and resumed her position as Director of the Brain Tissue Repository and now also serves as a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

Dr. Grill is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Neurobiology and Behavior at UCI. He is the Carla Liggett and Arthur S. Liggett, MD, Endowed Chair, in honor of Frank M. LaFerla in the School of Biological Sciences at UCI. Dr. Grill holds leadership positions at UCI and in national Alzheimer’s disease research networks. He is the Chair of the Internal Ethics Committee for the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study. He co-Chairs the same Committee and co-leads the Recruitment Engagement and Retention Unit for the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial Consortium (ACTC). He is the Co-Director of the Institute on Methods and Protocols for Advancement of Clinical Trials in ADRD (IMPACT-AD) and serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards for the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) and Hilarity for Charity (HFC). He is also the Clinical Trials section editor for Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.