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🇵🇷 Another successful week in Puerto Rico! Our team evaluated 53 participants while strengthening community partnerships to advance dementia research and brain health. 💙🧠

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🧠🌍 From the U.S. to Africa, the HIHG team in Cameroon helping build dementia research infrastructure through collaboration, innovation, and shared knowledge.

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🧠🌍 Building Dementia Research Infrastructure through collaboration, innovation, and shared knowledge.

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🧠💚 Community outreach in action!

This weekend, the DAWN Hispanic Team joined King Jesus Ministry’s community event in Miami, connecting with local residents, leaders, and organizations to share information about our research and ongoing studies.

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🧠💜 June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month.

Support your brain health with simple daily habits:
✅ Stay active
🥗 Eat a balanced diet
😴 Get quality sleep
📚 Keep learning
🤝 Stay socially connected

Small steps today can help support a healthier brain tomorrow.

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Members of the DAWN/HIHG team during a recent ascertainment event in Naples and Fort Myers, connecting with communities and supporting participation in Alzheimer’s disease research across Florida. 🌴🧠

#DAWNStudy #HIHG #AlzheimersResearch

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Tony Griswold representing the University of Miami with his presentation:

“Multi-Ancestry AD Plasma Biomarkers Using NULISAseq: Global Insights into Disease Biology” 🌎🔬

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Congratulations to Olabode Omotoso on receiving a competitive travel award! ✨🌍🧬🏆

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🧬 Rufus Akinyemi presenting our collaborative DAWN Study: “Non-Genetic and Genetic Risk Factors for AD among Indigenous Africans: Emerging Data from the AfDC Cohort of the DAWN Alzheimer’s Project.” 🌍✨ #ADSP #DAWNStudy #AlzheimersResearch #Genetics #HIHG

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🧬 Margaret Pericak-Vance presenting “Worldwide sequencing efforts in AD: Global impact and opportunity” at the ADSP meeting — advancing global collaboration and diversity in Alzheimer’s disease research. 🌎✨ #ADSP #AlzheimersResearch #Genetics #HIHG

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From Lima to the global conversation on neurogenetics Grateful to see researchers, clinicians, & collaborators come together for the V PeADI Regional Meeting 2026 in Lima, Peru advancing conversations in neuroscience, genetics, & community impact across Latin America & beyond.

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Rosario Isasi at the V PeADI Regional Meeting 2026, presenting on the ethical and social dimensions of interpreting Alzheimer’s disease risk in Hispanic/Latino communities. 🧠🌎 #AlzheimersResearch #Bioethics #PeADI #HIHG #UniversityOfMiami

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Jeffery M. Vance presented at the V PeADI Regional Meeting 2026, sharing updates on functional genetics studies and advancing Alzheimer’s disease research through global collaboration. 🧬🌎 #AlzheimersResearch #Genetics #HIHG #PeADI #UniversityOfMiami

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Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., FACMG, presented at the V PeADI Regional Meeting 2026 on advancing global genetic studies in Alzheimer’s disease through the PeADI Project. 🌎🧬 #AlzheimersResearch #Genetics #HIHG #PeADI #UniversityOfMiami

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🧬 DNA Day 2026 was filled with discovery, community, and hands-on science fun! Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the event a success. 💚🧡

Read the full recap at the link in our bio! ✨

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Karen Nuytemans from the University of Miami Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) was an invited speaker at the Tau Global Meeting, where she presented:

“Genetics in FTD, PD, AD: Informing Gaps in Understanding about the Impact of Ancestry.”

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Honored to participate in “A Life Without Memory: Latinos, Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s” in Miami Gardens. 🧠💚

Thank you to Mr. Mario Tapia, President & CEO of the Latino Center on Aging, for the invitation and continued support of Alzheimer’s research and community outreach. 🙌🧡

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In a world that never slows down… give yourself permission to. 🤍✨
Pause. Reset. Protect your peace.

#StressAwarenessMonth #MindfulMoments #ProtectYourPeace #Breathe #WellnessJourney

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Comunidad El Gandul ✨ On-site helping individuals and families get connected, informed, and enrolled.

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The HIHG team enrolls participants in Alzheimer’s disease research across Salinas, Puerto Rico for the DAWN project. #universityofmiami