Dr. Lindsay Farrer Receives Prestigious Zenith Fellows Award from the Alzheimer’s Association
Dr. Lindsay A. Farrer, PhD, chief of Biomedical Genetics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has been selected to receive a 3-year, $450,000 Zenith Fellows Award from the Alzheimer’s Association — one of the most prestigious honors in Alzheimer’s research worldwide. Dr. Farrer has served as principal investigator for large-scale genetic epidemiological […]
BU Researchers Contribute to Largest Consensus Genetic Study of Alzheimer’s Disease
BU Biomedical Genetics researchers Dr. Lindsay A. Farrer, along with Congcong Zhu, John J. Farrell, Donghe Li, Richard M. Sherva, and others contributed to a major international consensus meta-analysis published in Nature Genetics. The study looked at data from three leading Alzheimer’s genetics consortia: the European Alzheimer & Dementia Biobank (EADB), the European Alzheimer’s Disease […]
Alzheimer’s and smoking interaction study
A large multi-ancestry genome-wide study co-authored by BU Biomedical Genetics faculty has identified specific genes that may help explain why cigarette smoking is associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This study was published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association (November 2025) and was conducted by BU Biomedical Genetics contributors Dr. Gyungah R. Jun, Dr. […]