Five members of the Okonkwo Lab presented their work at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2021! Max Gaitán: Cardiorespiratory fitness bolsters cerebrovascular health in adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease (Oral session) Ryan Dougherty: …

A warm welcome to the newest members of the Okonkwo Lab: Alyssa and Ben! Alyssa Pandos is our new LIFE study coordinator. Ben Rackovan is our new EXERT study coordinator.

Congratulations to Clayton McIntyre on receiving a Hilldale Fellowship for 2021-2022! The title of the project is “Aerobic fitness, insulin sensitivity, and cognition in an aging cohort at risk for Alzheimer’s disease”, and the main …

Ozioma Okonkwo, PhD, was selected to join the External Advisory Committee of the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, which aims to develop tools to predict and prevent cognitive decline and dementia, develop risk-prediction models for cognitive …

Congratulations to Ira Driscoll, PhD on the acceptance of her manuscript Age-related tau burden and cognitive deficits are attenuated in KLOTHO KL-VS heterozygotes in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease!

Congratulations to Kaitlin Maxa for having her manuscript Cardiorespiratory Fitness Associates with Cerebral Vessel Pulsatility in a Cohort Enriched with Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of Brain Plasticity!

Alice Motovylyak, PhD was selected to give a 5-minute Blitz Talk presentation at the UW-Madison Postdoctoral Research Symposium on September 23rd and 24th about her work looking at NODDI (neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging) indices …

Ozioma Okonkwo provided expert commentary for a feature article in Neurology Today on a seminal paper published in Science last month. https://journals.lww.com/neurotodayonline/Fulltext/2020/08200/Through_Plasma_Transfer_from_Active_Aged_Mice,.8.aspx

Ozioma Okonkwo, PhD has been invited to lead the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Study’s new Diversity Taskforce. This taskforce will work to develop strategies to increase the rate of recruitment of under-represented minorities into …

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Dougherty who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation! He will be moving to Johns Hopkins to begin his postdoctoral training on Marilyn Albert’s Aging and Age-Related Cognitive Disorders T32 Fellowship.