Our Team

ADRC Development Project Awardees

Kimberly Alonge, PhD

Acting Instructor, UW Medicine
2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Brain glycan sulfation recoding in Alzheimer's disease

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Yeilim Cho, MD

Advanced Fellow, Veterans Affairs VISN-20 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center
2023-2024 ADRC Development Project Leader: Defining the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and MRI measures of glymphatic dysfunction

Meredith Course, PhD

2020-2021 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Novel Transcripts of PSEN1 and PSEN2 in Familial and Sporadic Alzheimer Disease

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Deidre Jansson, MSc, PhD

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UW School of Medicine
2020-2021 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Defining the cellular and transcriptomics architecture of the choroid plexus in Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study

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Mehmet Kurt

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UW
Project: Investigating in-vivo brain mechanical properties as Alzheimer’s Disease biomarkers through multifrequency MR Elastography

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Nam Phuong Nguyen , PhD

Operations Manager, Imaging & Biomarker Core and Rural Brain Health Initiative, ADRC

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Katherine Prater, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jayadev Lab, Department of Neurology, UW Medicine
2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Understanding microglia responses in resilience, cognitive decline, and neuropathological proteopathy

Elizabeth Rhea, PhD

Research Biologist, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Gerontology, UW
2020-2021 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Soluble insulin receptor levels in Alzheimer's disease

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Andrew B Stergachis, MD, PhD, FACMG

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genome Sciences, Division of Medical Genetics, UW
2023-2024 ADRC Development Project Leader: Resolving Alzheimer’s disease risk loci using phased long-read chromatin maps

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Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey, PhD

Associate Professor, Director Clinical Neurosciences / Principal Investigator of the Brain Aging Study, Huntington Medical Research Institutes
Co-Lead, Data Management & Statistics Core, UW ADRC
2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Plasma phosphorylated tau protein and Alzheimer's disease in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study

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Sarah Taylor

Clinical Trials Coordinator, ADRC

Tomas Vaisar, PhD

Research Professor and Director, Proteomics and Bioinformatics Core, Diabetes Research Center, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, UW School of Medicine
2023-2024 ADRC Development Project Leader: Heterogeneity of Brain Lipoprotein Particles in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Yuliang Wang, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering/Institute for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington
2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Using metabolic network modeling to improve the maturity of iPSC-derived microglia for Alzheimer's disease

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