At the recent Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), thousands of posters were presented by investigators from around the world. The Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) is a network of scientists, clinicians and dementia professionals who maintain Professional Interest Areas (PIAs). At AAIC, the leadership of the various PIAs selected trainees’ (graduate students and post-docs) poster for a competition in which the evaluation criteria was scientific impact. Remarkably, 3 UCI MIND trainees were selected. Paul Gaona-Partida (mentor Daniel Gillen) was selected for the Diversity and Disparities PIA for his poster “Assessing syndromic diagnosis and amyloid burden among racial and ethnic groups in SCAN.” Lisi Flores Aguilar (mentor Elizabeth Head) was selected for the Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s PIA for her poster “Resilience to Alzheimer’s disease in individuals with Down Syndrome.” And Tiffany Petrisko (mentor Andrea Tenner) was selected for the Immunity and Neurodegeneration PIA for her poster “Adult global deletion of C1q reduces reactive astrocytes and rescues synaptic loss independently of amyloid phagocytosis in AD mouse model.” Congratulations to all the winners.
