All Pilot Grant Recipients
2024 Pilot Grant Recipients
Matteo Bellitti, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate in the Boston University, Department of Medicine, Section of Computational Biomedicine. His project is entitled, “Digital Sleep Measures for the Assessment of Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease”
Lei Hou, PhD, Assitant Professor in the Boston University, Department of Medicine, Section of Biomedical Genetics. His project is entitled, “Study Gene-Cardiovascular-Factors Interplay in Alzheimer’s Disease with Omics Data in FHS”
Ruija Chen, ScD, Postdoctoral Associate in the Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. Her project is entitled, “Disparities In Dementia Risk, Brain Imaging, and Neuropathology by Socioeconomic Status: Elucidating Life Course Processes and Cardiometabolic Pathways”
2023 Pilot Grant Recipients
Jinying Chen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the Boston University, Department of Medicine, Section of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology. Her project is entitled, “A New, Construct-based Approach to Improve Interpretability and Generalizability of Machine Learning-based Risk Prediction for Alzheimer’s Disease” – 
Habbiburr Rehman, Ph.D. postdoctoral fellow in the Boston University, Department of Medicine, Section of Biomedical Genetics, supervised by Drs. Qiu and Zhang. His project is entitled, “Identification of significant blood protein markers for the characterization of Alzheimer’s diseasestatus and its progression in FHS” – 2022 Pilot Grant Recipients
Jonathan David, Cherry, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Project title: “Training artificial intelligence to segment neuropathology for automated analysis” – 
Shariq Mohammed, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics. Project title: “Developing novel digital neuropsychological test-based markers to quantify heterogeneity in participants’ performance” – Yuan Fang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate, Boston University School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics. Project title: “Modeling heterogeneity in cognitive trajectories in the Framingham Heart Study”
2021 Pilot Grant Recipients
Qiushan Tao, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics Boston University School of Medicine. Samia Akhter-Khan, Researcher, Boston University School of Medicine. PhD candidate, Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London. Project title: “Cognitive and neural correlates of persistent and transient loneliness in midlife: Findings from the Framingham Heart Study”
Phillip Hwang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology Boston University School of Medicine (2023 appointed Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health). Project title: “Identification of cognitive resilience using neuropsychological tests in the Framingham Heart Study”