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Cognitive Neurology Research Faculty

Research faculty in the Center for Cognitive Neurology are recognized leaders in the field.

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Mark A. Bernard, PhD

Instructor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: biofluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, racial and ethnic health disparities, sleep and circadian rhythms, and chemistry and chemical biology
Methodological skills: biomarker analysis, actigraphy, high-performance liquid chromatography, mass spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Allal Boutajangout, MHS, PhD

Research Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience and Physiology
Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Neurology Biomarker Core
Lab Chief, Neurodegeneration and Drug Discovery Program, Center for Cognitive Neurology
Expertise: Alzheimer’s disease, prion diseases, frontotemporal dementia, traumatic brain injury, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Methodological skills: therapy and immunotherapy of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, identification of new biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders (Simoa and Lumipulse), small molecule and stem cell therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders in preclinical models, generation of transgenic mouse models, biochemistry techniques, molecular biology techniques, histopathology, and neuropathology

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Anthony Q. Briggs, PhD

Instructor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: Alzheimer’s disease, subjective cognitive decline, sleep health, psychosocial determinants of health, and racial and ethnic health disparities
Methodological skills: biomarker studies, qualitative analysis, and statistical analysis of longitudinal data

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Fernando R. Goni, PhD

Research Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: immunology–protein chemistry–neuroscience, and immunotherapies for neurodegenerative diseases with an emphasis in Alzheimer’s disease and prion disease
Methodological skills: protein chemistry analysis; design of protein/peptides for therapeutics in neurodegenerative disease; production, isolation, purification, and characterization of neurodegenerative disease therapeutics; design of experiments with transgenic animals to evaluate therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease

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Lindsey J. Gurin, MD

Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Rehabilitation Medicine
Expertise: brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease

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Sunnie Kenowsky, DVM

Research Scientist, Department of Neurology
Expertise: Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, subjective cognitive decline, management of Alzheimer's disease, and enhancing care and functioning of people with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
Methodological skills: psychometry, cognitive and behavioral markers of cognitive decline, individualized care management approaches, and clinical trials

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Karyn D. Marsh

Administrative Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Co-Director, Center of Excellence on Alzheimer’s Disease
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: racial and ethnic health disparities, specifically focusing on the role of race, socioeconomic status, and other social determinants of health on cognitive decline
Methodological skills: qualitative analyses and statistical analysis of longitudinal data

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Arjun V. Masurkar, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience and Physiology
Expertise: Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders
Methodological skills: neurocognitive phenotyping, observational studies of normal versus pathologic aging, biomarkers, in vitro electrophysiology, in vivo imaging, optogenetics, and single-neuron computational modeling

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Joanna E. Pankiewicz, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Expertise: Alzheimer’s disease and prion diseases
Methodological skills: transgenic animal studies, cell culture research, cell transfection, proteomic protocols, ELISAs, histology, immunocytochemistry and immunohistochemistry, fluorescent and confocal microscopy, and aggregation assays and morphometric quantification

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Frances Prelli, BS

Research Scientist, Department of Neurology
Expertise: protein chemistry: purification and characterization of recombinant proteins, peptides and antibodies; immunology: kinetics of binding and aggregating proteins
Methodological skills: high-performance liquid chromatography, fast protein liquid chromatography, surface plasmon resonance, SDS-PAGE, and Western blots

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Martin Sadowski, MD, PhD

Clinical Director, Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials Program
Professor, Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Expertise: pathobiology of Alzheimer’s disease and prion diseases
Methodological skills: mouse models of ß-amyloidosis, tauopathies, and prionoses

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Joel Salinas, MD, MBA

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: psychosocial determinants of brain health, including cognitive resilience and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
Methodological skills: advanced neuroepidemiologic methods, statistical analysis of longitudinal data, and population health data science

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Henrieta Scholtzova, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: pathobiology of Alzheimer’s disease, innate immunity, immunomodulation, amyloid pathology, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia
Methodological skills: experimental neuropathological techniques, animal models (rodents and non-human primates), biomarker studies, and neuroimaging

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Evan T. Schulze, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: neuropsychology, psychological aspects of aging, cognitive and behavioral changes due to neurological conditions, dementia in all forms, brain health, and neuropsychological and quality of life outcomes
Methodological skills: neuropsychological assessment, psychological assessment and intervention, and clinical trials

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Jack W. Tsao, MD, PhD

The Dr. Edwin Kolodny Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: clinical areas: dementia (all forms), concussion, headache; research areas: phantom limb pain after amputation, concussion and relationship with dementia, and other neurodegenerative disorders
Methodological skills: functional imaging, cognitive performance, and biomarkers

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Thomas M. Wisniewski, MD

Associate Chair for Research, Department of Neurology
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman Professor of New York University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology
Expertise: Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, subjective cognitive decline, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, congophilic amyloid angiopathy, Alzheimer’s disease pathology in Down syndrome, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Methodological skills: experimental neuropathological techniques, as well as biochemical, molecular biological and proteomic approaches, using human tissue, animal models (rodents and non-human primates), cell culture models, and induced pluripotent stem cells