The Okonkwo Lab will be well represented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands! Six lab members’ abstracts were accepted for poster or oral presentations:
Ira Frahmand: Klotho protein concentrations as a function of sex, APOE, family history or Alzheimer’s disease biomarker status in an at-risk cohort (Poster Presentation)
Noah Cook: Relationships between KLOTHO and APOE4-associated β-amyloid and tau alterations across AD continuum (Poster Presentation)
Kyle Edmunds: (1) Cardiorespiratory fitness partially mediates the association between age and insulin resistance in a cohort enriched with risk for Alzheimer’s disease (Poster Presentation), (2) Sex modifies the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and insulin resistance (Poster Presentation)
Ozioma Okonkwo: Culturally-informed Community-engaged Efforts to Improve Inclusion and Engagement of Underrepresented Ethnocultural Populations in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 3 Study: The ADNI Diversity Task Force (Oral Presentation in a Featured Research Session)
Lexi Nelson: Depression amplifies the association between age and amyloid burden in an at-risk cohort (Poster Presentation)
Beth Planalp: Associations of physical activity with cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer’s disease (Poster Presentation)
Congratulations team!