Assistant Professor of Neurology @ColumbiaMed #PopulationGenetics #Epidemiology #Neuroscience #Alzheimer #ENDALZ 🏳️‍🌈

New York, NY
Joined October 2021
Africa is making history with its first large-scale Alzheimer’s datasets 🧠✨ Read more in the link!
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Presenting my preliminary results of APOE e4 and Ptau 217 over cognition in quechua and aymara population from GAPP study at #AAIC25 in Toronto. Thanks to @GiusToLab, @NiltonCustodio8 @marciosotoanari
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How does APOE status impact AD risk in Hispanics/Latinos? Research in A&D report APOE ε4 shows a heterogeneous effect on ADRD risk across Hispanic/Latino populations, with the strongest associations in Peruvians/Bolivians #AlzResearch alz-journals.onlinelibrary.w…
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What does heritability mean as measured multiple ways and what does it mean for our understanding of Alzheimer's? Alzheimer disease is (sometimes) highly heritable: Drivers of variation in heritability estimates for binary traits, a systematic review medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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1/ Even in the era of single-cell RNAseq, bulk-RNAseq data are still very valuable. 10 tools/papers related to bulk-RNAseq deconvolution.🧵
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Part of the amazing GAPP team in #AAIC2022
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Our preprint on rare variant associations in the UK Biobank exomes has now been updated to its final release of 450K exomes: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… and the browser updated to the latest association set: genebass.org/ - Happy exploring!
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Please RT! This is a wonderful _fully funded_ summer opportunity for undergraduates @Columbia thanks to @NIH & @alzassociation @CeriseElliott @HeatherAlz
The STAR U application for the 2022 cycle is NOW live! Please help us spread the word to undergraduate scholars who are interested in gaining a mentored research experience in #brain #aging next summer! Students can apply only by January 15th, 2022: neurology.columbia.edu/educa…