Prof. Melissa E. Murray 📸🔬

Digital pathology guru | Pathomics explorer | Biomarker enthusiast | Hopeful scientist | Scientific program committee HAI | Advisory board AD/PD

[Prof. Melissa E. Murray 📸🔬 @DrNeuroChic]

Deliriously excited to share our new Neuron Perspective on transformative neuropathology—a roadmap to accelerate brain health discoveries through broader support of brain banks with tech-enabled, team-science approaches to tissue.

🧠 Perspective article: https://t.co/K1rUAXgj2a
🎧NotebookLM podcast: https://t.co/PyDMruUhOb
#TransformativeNeuropathology

This Perspective outlines a bold vision for the future of human brain research. One that embraces innovation in digital pathology, spatial biology, machine learning, and biomarkers while grounding discoveries in the power of human tissue.

I learned so much from the collective expertise of over 40 co-authors, glad to have had the chance to wax poetic, sing karaoke, watch all you fit people play tennis, and wander the woods together!
@AdrianoAguzzi @NeuroBioMed @ArlineFaustin @MaggieFlanagan @grinberg_t @HillmanLab @ZhiHuangPhD @DavidJonesBrain @Alifkapasi1 @karchlab @tammarynlashley @TNRLab @PritchettLab @JASchneiderMD @TSpiresJones @ionicwoman @IcahnMountSinai @_JakeVogel_ @EdinburghUni @AllenInstitute @cziscience @OxNeuro @rushalzheimers @UCSFmac @neuraustralia @nygenome @IcahnMountSinai @cshlmeetings

#TransformativeNeuropathology #BrainHealth #Neuropathology #Neurodegeneration #MachineLearning #DigitalPathology #Neuron #TeamScience #Pathomics

[Joseph Sirven, MD @jsirven]

Palliative care is not giving up—it’s about protecting the life a patient still has.
This week on Cafecito with Dr. Joe, we talk with @MayoClinic’s Dr. Maisha Robinson about how palliative care supports symptom relief, better communication and the goals that make life worth living.
What if one of medicine’s most misunderstood services is actually designed to help you live better—not simply prepare to die?

[Lewy Body Dementias PIA @LBDPIA]

First questions coming from Mayo crew! @DrNeuroChic kicks off the panel chatters 🧠

[Erin Connolly @ErinEConnolly0]

The friends you might meet on a cable car at #AAIC26… 💜

It truly feels like fate that a chance conversation on a cable car lead me to meeting someone who has already had such a meaningful impact on me!

Thank you, Melissa Murray @DrNeuroChic , for welcoming me into the neuropathology community with such open arms. In just a few days, you’ve shared invaluable career and life advice, introduced me to so many incredible people, and made what felt like a huge conference feel so much smaller and more like home.

One of my biggest takeaways from AAIC has been that science is built on relationships just as much as it is on discoveries. I’m so grateful our paths crossed, and I can’t wait to pay your kindness and mentorship forward one day.

Feeling incredibly inspired to be part of this community. 🧠💜

#Neuropathology #AAIC2026 #BrainBanking #Mentorship #Duke #MayoClinic

[The Rainwater Charitable Foundation @RCFNeuro]

🎧 Inside the science behind this year’s #RainwaterPrize. Winners Drs. Dennis Dickson, (@dennis_w_d), Melissa Murray (@DrNeuroChic), and Marc Aurel Busche (@marcaurelbusche) discuss discoveries shaping tau research, from biomarkers to brain vulnerability: https://t.co/YHQOvheDUq

[Eduardo Zimmer @erzimmer]

@AlamarBio is now in the south of 🇧🇷! A lot of diversity on AD biomarkers coming soon! 🩸 @zimmerneurolab

[Epoch Health @epochhealth]

🚨Vitamin D’s Surprising Link to Early Dementia

Read more

[Mayo Florida AutoImmune Neurology Group @Mayo_AING]

Can we localise FBDS? (At last ……. After so many years of hypotheses…) . We can get close…. Great work led by @SoontaeLeeMD @SamanthaBanksMD
and colleagues

[LibertyJ @LibertyJen]

Yes, you need to see a highland cow with a Bob Ross cut today.

[BrightFocus Foundation @_BrightFocus]

“Early-stage research like ours is critical because it explores why disease processes occur, not just what they look like. Without dedicated funding for curiosity-driven, high-risk/high-reward projects, we could miss important biological mechanisms that are essential for real breakthroughs.” - Macular Degeneration Research grantee Dr. Neetu Kushwah

Dr. Kushwah is uncovering how a breakdown in the retina's ability to process fatty molecules may be quietly driving macular degeneration. Her research could hold the key to new treatments.

Read more: https://t.co/2ZlnPZraB6

#Science #Research #MacularDegeneration

[The Rainwater Charitable Foundation @RCFNeuro]

🎧 Listen to this episode of the Alzheimer’s Breakthrough podcast as 2026 Rainwater Prize winner Dr. Melissa Murray (@DrNeuroChic) explains how earlier detection and brain donation are advancing more targeted approaches to neurodegenerative disease. https://t.co/1RRcble2wX

[The Rainwater Charitable Foundation @RCFNeuro]

New tau biology insights are opening future therapeutic directions. In Drug Discovery Online, read more from 2026 Rainwater Prize winner Dr. Melissa Murray (@DrNeuroChic) and our Scientific Program Director Amy Rommel, Ph.D.

🔗: https://t.co/2yB1hQc7Z0

[Donna Wilcock @Wilcock_v2]

Congratulations newly minted PhD, Dr Katelynn Krick! Wonderful thesis defense today!

[Brett Benedetti @NeuroBioMed]

With my time at CZI coming to a close, I'm now excited to begin exploring new professional opportunities in scientific strategy, program management, funding stewardship, and community building. More details in the LinkedIn post here 👇
https://t.co/6ywvTzYmeR

[AD/PD - Advances in Science & Therapy @adpdnet]

Forum Discussions Highlight ✨
Tuesday, March 18, 2026, | 14:30–15:30 for an engaging forum discussion at #ADPD2026, bringing key voices together to explore the path from discovery to impact. “Biomarkers to Benefit: Accelerating Translation of Multi-Modal Biomarkers into Disease-Modifying Therapies”
@DrNeuroChic @TheBrainCareDoc
Read more: https://t.co/Z8oDJwmDol #Alzheimers #Parkinsons
@amsterdamumc @MayoClinic @Eisai_SDGs

[The Rainwater Charitable Foundation @RCFNeuro]

Drs. Dennis Dickson (@dennis_w_d) & Melissa Murray (@DrNeuroChic) share the 2026 Rainwater Prize for Outstanding Innovation in Neurodegenerative Research. Together, they direct one of the world’s largest tauopathy brain banks. Learn more about their work: https://t.co/MsDzIpB7Go

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in cargo cult science.

[The Rainwater Charitable Foundation @RCFNeuro]

Congratulations to Drs. Dennis Dickson (@dennis_w_d), Melissa Murray (@DrNeuroChic), and Marc Aurel Busche (@marcaurelbusche), recipients of the 2026 Rainwater Prize. The Prize celebrates scientists advancing neurodegenerative research. Explore their work: https://t.co/S8RZlvH0Cf

[Prof. Melissa E. Murray 📸🔬 @DrNeuroChic]

We are over the moon with excitement and humbled to be 2026 Rainwater Prize winners. To be awarded alongside my former mentor, long time collaborator, and truly great human @dennis_w_dicksin is such an honor.

[The Rainwater Charitable Foundation @RCFNeuro]

Congratulations to Drs. Dennis Dickson (@dennis_w_d), Melissa Murray (@DrNeuroChic), and Marc Aurel Busche (@marcaurelbusche), recipients of the 2026 Rainwater Prize. The Prize celebrates scientists advancing neurodegenerative research. Explore their work: https://t.co/S8RZlvH0Cf

[Prof. Melissa E. Murray 📸🔬 @DrNeuroChic]

Incredible data from an incredible team. It takes so much dedication to push forward knowledge that may not make huge profits but that will make a huge impact in the daily life of people living with cognitive problems. Thank you for caring 💜💜💜

[Maria C Carrillo PhD @DrMariaALZ]

So honored to have brougt together the U.S. POINTER trial with @HeatherAlz & team led by Dr. Laura Baker and others! Impact is clear, our article was included in JAMA's Research of the Year. We are among the most influential studies of the year, congratulations! @Prof_R_Whitmer