All Pilot Grant Recipients
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2024 Pilot Grant Recipients
Matteo Bellitti, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University.
Project: “Digital Sleep Measures for the Assessment of Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease”
Lei Hou, PhD
Assistant Professor, Section of Biomedical Genetics, Department of Medicine, Boston University.
Project: “Study Gene-Cardiovascular-Factors Interplay in Alzheimer’s Disease with Omics Data in FHS”
Ruijia Chen, ScD
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health.
Project: “Disparities In Dementia Risk, Brain Imaging, and Neuropathology by Socioeconomic Status: Elucidating Life Course Processes and Cardiometabolic Pathways”
2023 Pilot Grant Recipients
Jinying Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Section of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University.
Project: “A New, Construct-based Approach to Improve Interpretability and Generalizability of Machine Learning-based Risk Prediction for Alzheimer’s Disease”
Habbiburr Rehman, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Biomedical Genetics, Department of Medicine, Boston University. Supervised by Drs. Qiu and Zhang.
Project: “Identification of Significant Blood Protein Markers for the Characterization of Alzheimer’s Disease Status and Its Progression in FHS”
2022 Pilot Grant Recipients
Jonathan David Cherry, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
Project: “Training Artificial Intelligence to Segment Neuropathology for Automated Analysis”
Shariq Mohammed, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health.
Project: “Developing Novel Digital Neuropsychological Test-based Markers to Quantify Heterogeneity in Participants’ Performance”
Yuan Fang, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health.
Project: “Modeling Heterogeneity in Cognitive Trajectories in the Framingham Heart Study”
2021 Pilot Grant Recipients
Qiushan Tao, PhD
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.
Joint Project: “Cognitive and Neural Correlates of Persistent and Transient Loneliness in Midlife: Findings from the Framingham Heart Study”
Phillip Hwang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine.
Project: “Identification of Cognitive Resilience Using Neuropsychological Tests in the Framingham Heart Study”