News

February - Congratulations to Alejandra Bahena on her admittance to the Pharmacology PhD Program at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania!
January 2024 - Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Fellow, Sanaz Arezoumandan for her accepted publication reporting Tau maturation in the clinicopathological spectrum of Lewy body and Alzheimer's disease.
October 2023 - Congratulations to our Research Associate, Daniel Ohm for his accepted publication reporting Neuroanatomical and cellular degeneration associated with a social disorder characterized by new ritualistic belief systems in a TDP-C patient versus a Pick patient.
August 2023 - Welcome to our newest postdoctoral fellow, Sheina Emrani!
August 2023 - Welcome to our newest research specialist, Parham Pouladvand!
April 2023 - Congratulations to our Research Associate, Daniel Ohm for receiving a K01 career development award.
March 2023 - Congratulations to MaKayla Lowe on her admittance to Vanderbilt University's Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (IGP) in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences!
June 2022 - Welcome to our two newest research specialists, Alejandra Bahena and Philip Sabatini!
February 2022 - Congratulations to Claire Goucher on her admittance to SUNY College of Optometry!
September 2021 - Welcome our two newest research specialists, Claire Goucher and MaKayla Lowe!
May 2021 - We are excited to have two new students working with us this summer, Bridget Loja Patino and Eusha Hasan!
September 2020 - Congratulations to David Coughlin for his accepted publications: Multimodal In Vivo and Post-mortem Assessments of Tau in Lewy Body Disorders and Hippocampal Subfield Pathologic Burden in Lewy Body Diseases versus Alzheimer’s Disease
August 2020 - Congratulations to our post-doc, Daniel Ohm for his accepted publication reporting that neurodegeneration of the locus coeruleus can help differentiate tauopathies from clinically similar TDP-43 proteinopathies.
July 2020 - We welcome our newest member, Emily Xie!
May 2020 - We are excited to have three new students working with us this summer! A warm welcome to Emily Kopp, Emma Goodman, and Miles Gee!
April 2020 - David Irwin presents at AFTDs 2020 Education Conference in Baltimore, MD.
Oct. 2019 - Lucia Giannini talk "Greater Relative White Matter Burden is a Distinct Feature of Tauopathies in Frontotemporal Degeneration Spectrum," at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
Oct. 2019 - David Irwin presents "Update on Lewy Body Diseases," at the American Neurological Association Annual Meeting in St. Lois, MO.
July 16^th 2019 - David Irwin presents "Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Disease: Pathologic Perspective" at AAIC in Los Angeles, CA.
July 3^rd 2019 – Lucia Giannini and Penn DNPL publishes "Empiric Methods to Account for Pre-analytical Variability in Digital Histopathology in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration" presenting new methods to account for staining batch effects in digital measurements of pathology
July 1^st 2019 - We welcome Alejandra Bahenas to the lab as a summer student in the PURM program.
June 26^th 2019 - David Irwin participates in academic debate "Should protein aggregates be the primary focus for disease modifying therapies? - YES" at the International Lewy Body Dementia Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
June 1^st 2019 - We say farewell to David Coughlin as he starts his new academic position at UCSD.
May 2019 - Lucia Giannini and Penn DNPL publish "Divergent Patterns of TDP-43 and Tau Pathologies in Primary Progressive Aphasia" a new study on regional patterns of FTLD-Tau vs FTLD-TDP pathology in PPA.
May 2019 - We welcome Daniel Ohm to the lab as a postdoc!
February 2019 - David Coughlin and Penn DNPL publish "Cognitive and Pathological Influences of Tau Pathology in Lewy Body Disorders" a new study on AD co-pathology in LBD.