Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

The University of Pittsburgh ADRC is one of the nation’s leading research centers specializing in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.

[Anum Saeed @AnumSaeedMD]

🚨NEW: In our @NIHAging funded study;

🧠 🫀 Mid-life #ASCVD risk predicts late-life neurodegeneration & WMH— 🔑 to a “vulnerable brain”

❌ No link to Aβ/tau

💡 ASCVD score may empower 🧑🏾‍⚕️👨🏼‍⚕️& guide #HeartBrain health discussion!

🔗 👉🏽: https://t.co/UCvzGcC0Ts

#HeartBrainAxis

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

A big congratulations to @PittADRC's @AnnCohenWilson2 for winning the Christopher Clark Award at @HAIconference for contributions to PET imaging. Here she is surrounded by other HAI award winning researchers, Gemma Salvadó & Reisa Sperling.

[Karikari Lab @kkarilab]

Congrats to our PI, Dr. Karikari for being selected for the 2025 Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Seminar Series! Don't miss his lecture on June 13th! #PittResearch #AcademicExcellence
https://t.co/UFwvxuxRbL

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

Congratulations to @PittADRC researchers @TommyKakari and #VictorVillemagne for having work in the top 1% of citations for 2024!

[Thomas K. Karikari @TommyKakari]

Department of Psychiatry Faculty Rank Among the Top 1% of Cited Works in 2024 https://t.co/5mi2i8tqqw

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

Register for this webinar held by our community partners Dementia Friendly PA @JHForg to better understand concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Feb 5, 2025 on zoom, 11-12:30 Eastern time.

Register here: https://t.co/dkIjY8cN6j

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

4️⃣ Congratulations to Lili Lu, PhD, postdoc at @AgingPitt, for her poster: The Alzheimer's Disease-Associated TREM2 R47H Exacerbates Ferroptosis Through GPX4. 🌟 Incredible research leading to an OSCAR Symposium Outstanding Poster award!

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 5th Annual @PittADRC OSCAR Symposium on Thursday! 🌟 It was inspiring to see so many great posters generating fantastic dialogue, and to hear @AnnCohenWilson2 share her journey in ADRD research.

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

3️⃣ Applause for Afshin Bahramy, PhD (@AKaaziwa), human genetics PhD student @PittPubHealth, for his poster: Integrating Computational Pathology & ML to Generate Hippocampal Sclerosis Phenotypes for GWAS. 🚀 Phenomenal work earning an Outstanding Poster award!

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

2️⃣ Shoutout to Hannah Dewhurst, BS, @PittADRC staff, for her Outstanding Poster, “Case Review: Posterior Cortical Atrophy.” 👏 Congratulations for your Outstanding Poster award!

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

1️⃣ Huge congratulations to Annetta Yuwono, @PittTweet Neuroscience & Psychology student, Outstanding Poster awardee for, “The role of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) on tau phosphorylation and aggregation in AD,” presented at the @PittADRC OSCAR Symposium! 🏆

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

We awarded four Outstanding Poster awards this year, presented by REC co-leaders, @HAizenstein and @LinglerJen, @PittADRC REC co-leaders.

[Pitt Social Work @PittSocialwork]

Congratulations! Assistant Professor Quinton Cotton was selected to represent the Pitt Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC at the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) @NACCData Fall ADRC Mtg where he received the Rising Star Award. https://t.co/vJeb4fsKV7

[Shane Liddelow 🍊 @LiddelowSA]

@alzassociation #AAICNeuroNext meetings are trainee driven and a huge amount of fun.
Looking forward to interacting with everyone in person in #Pittsburgh, and online with the broad #Alzheimers community.

[National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC) @NACCData]

✨Congratulations to the 2024 Fall REC Rising Star Awardees! ✨ Awardees were chosen based on voting at the REC Poster Session at the #ADRCMeeting today.

Congrats to @QuintonCotton and Meagan Lauber!

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

Congratulations to @PittADRC's own @QuintonCotton for winning one of the two REC Rising Star Awards for his poster "Qualitative Analysis of Dementia Caregivers' Experiences with Lucidity"
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[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Lingler, Director of our ORE Core, on co-editing w/ Michael Deem the newly published book, Nursing Ethics: Normative Foundations, Advanced Concepts, and Emerging Issues.

https://t.co/DxGc9wBKgO

@UPittNursing
@pittbioethics
#PittPublicHealth

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

We hope to see you there!

[Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh @AgeFriendlyPGH]

Join Dr. Lilcelia Williams for a Walter Allen Memorial Lecture on self-care and agency in the health care system.

📆: Thu., Oct. 10
⏰: 1-2:30 pm
📍: @PittCECHill
🎟️: https://t.co/bUBqsH4gpt

cc: @OTPitt @pitt_medicine @PittADRC

[Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center @PittADRC]

The @PittADRC was proud to spend #WorldAlzheimersDay with #CNathanielBrown to share his documentary, Remember Me, about dementia in Black and African American Communities. The Q & A session was really engaging!

[Bruna Bellaver @BellaverBruna]

We are excited to announce that Pittsburgh will be a hub for AAIC Neuroscience Next 2025! Stay tuned for program details—coming soon. We can't wait to welcome you in person (or virtually) to our hub. @LabPascoal

[Tharick Pascoal @TharickAPascoal]

Fantastic experience in the #Walkingthetalkfordementia impeccably organized by Fernando Aguzzoli. This was a unique opportunity to discuss multiple aspects of dementia care from the perspective of several different stakeholders from 25 countries.