Last week, UCI MIND’s trainee-led organization REMIND hosted their 11th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium. The event featured six trainee presentations from Gianna Fote in Drs. Leslie Thompson & Joan Steffan's lab, Heechul Jun in Dr. Kei Igarashi's lab, Arunima Kapoor in Dr. Dan Nation's lab, Dr. Sarah Hernandez in Dr. Leslie Thompson's lab, Dr. Ashley Keiser in Dr. Marcelo Wood's lab, and Dr. Davis Woodworth in Dr. Ahmad Sajjadi's lab. Presentations were followed by a keynote lecture from Dr. Carol Barnes from the University of Arizona and a trainee poster competition with over 30 innovative research projects on Alzheimer's disease…
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Social workers from Alzheimer’s OC and Riverside County Office on Aging visited our labs to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease research and educational programs at UCI MIND. Our local Alzheimer’s Association and Caregiver Resource Center hosted a research update, where UCI researchers Drs. Dan Nation, Kei Igarashi, and Matt Inlay discussed current research projects and their motivation for studying Alzheimer’s disease. Graduate students, Morgan Coburn, Marina Ritchie, Mary Ryan, and postdoctoral scholars, Nicole Schartz, Ashley Keiser, Tiffany Petrisko, hosted 50 local middle schoolers at UCI MIND. They discussed Alzheimer’s disease and how they began their careers studying the brain. For…
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UCI MIND congratulates four members who have been named 2020 Physicians of Excellence. This distinction is given by Orange County Medical Association, and was published in Orange Coast magazine. There were more UCI Health physicians honored than from any other Orange County hospital or health system. Please join us in celebrating the achievements of these outstanding faculty. Click here to learn more >
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Stalked by the Fear That Dementia Is Stalking You The New York Times (Kaiser Health News) - Feb. 20, 2020 I spoke to half a dozen experts, and none was in favor of genetic testing, except in unusual circumstances. “Having the APOE4 allele does not mean you’ll get Alzheimer’s disease. Plenty of people with Alzheimer’s don’t have the allele,” said Mark Mapstone, a professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine. “And conversely, plenty of people with the allele never develop Alzheimer’s.”
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Orange County Business Journal - Feb. 17, 2020 Dr. Ruth Benca, who is chair of the Psychiatry and Human Behavior School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine in 2018 restarted the UCI sleep center. She’s designed a new, 6,000-square foot facility in Newport Beach … and has recruited doctors from a variety of fields, such as Dr. Kevin Im, who won a 2014 national award for a sleep study, Dr. Rami Khayat, the center’s medical director and expert on the effects of sleep apnea on cardiovascular diseases, and Dr. Behrouz Jafari, an expert in pulmonology. “We’ve built this…
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Contributed by Joshua D. Grill, PhD, Director of UCI MIND Early Monday morning (February 10, 2020), the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network Trials Unit (DIAN-TU) and Eli Lilly & Company announced disappointing results from a clinical trial of the monoclonal antibody, solanezumab, against the beta amyloid protein that accumulates in the brain of people with Alzheimer’s disease (press release >). The DIAN includes only the rare families who carry genetic mutations that cause an early-onset (3rd, 4th, 5th decade of life) form of Alzheimer’s disease. Solanezumab is also being tested as part of the Anti-Amyloid treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer’s (A4) Study, which is ongoing…
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ASK THE DOC! UCI MIND Facebook LIVE Video Series This monthly series features short talks and Q&A with experts from the University of California, Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND), 1 of 32 congressionally designated Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers in the nation. Join UCI MIND on Facebook (@UCIrvineMIND) to learn about advances in research to improve Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Are you getting enough sleep for your brain? About the Speaker: Dr. Ruth Benca is a Professor and Chair of Psychiatry & Human Behavior in the UCI School of Medicine and Founding Director…
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