Our Team
- Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic
- Project ECHO Dementia
- The Memory Hub
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC)
- Adult Changes in Thought Study
- Therapeutic Pipeline Project
- Pacific Udall Center
- Collaborators
- Clinic Provider Alumni
ADRC Development Project Awardees
![Kimberly Alonge, PhD](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/819/kimberly-alonge__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
Kimberly Alonge, PhD
- Acting Instructor, UW Medicine
- 2021-2022 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Brain glycan sulfation recoding in Alzheimer's disease
![Yeilim Cho, MD](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/1227/yeilim_cho__profile-sq-lg.jpeg)
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](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/686/unnamed__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
Meredith Course, PhD
- 2020-2021 UW ADRC Development Project Leader: Novel Transcripts of PSEN1 and PSEN2 in Familial and Sporadic Alzheimer Disease
![Deidre Jansson, MSc, PhD](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/687/img_5854__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
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
![Mehmet Kurt](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/1229/mehmet-kurt_copy__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
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
![Katherine Prater, PhD](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/820/1517542954070__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
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](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/688/e_rheaimage__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
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
![Andrew B Stergachis, MD, PhD, FACMG](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/1230/andrew_stergachis_headshot__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
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
![Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey, PhD](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/160/image_1476734287__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Elson S Floyd College of Medicine, Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), Washington State University
- 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
![Tomas Vaisar, PhD](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/1228/tomas_vaisar-250x375__profile-sq-lg.jpeg)
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
![Yuliang Wang, PhD](https://depts.washington.edu/mbwc/content/people-img/821/yuliangw_sm__profile-sq-lg.jpg)
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