Multiple Abstracts Accepted for Presentation at ADRD Research Day 2026

The Okonkwo Lab has 3 lab members whose abstracts were accepted for oral or poster presentation at the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders (ADRD) Research Day 2026 in Madison, WI:

Gabby Mamlouk: Racial identity moderates the association between depression and AD-relevant plasma biomarkers in a multi-ethnic cohort (Lightning Oral Presentation)

Emma Nicolaysen: KLOTHO KL-VS heterozygosity attenuates the association between age-related neurodegeneration and subsequent decline in executive function in a cohort of cognitively unimpaired middle-age and older adults (Poster Presentation)

Jackie Pontes Monteiro: Plasma-derived Proteomic Risk Score for Alzheimer’s Disease: Preliminary Results on Diagnostic Classification, Cognition, and Biomarker Correlates in ADNI1 (Poster Presentation)

Congratulations team!