Past Crew Member: Logan Dumitrescu, MS, PhD

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Neurology, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2021-present)

Previous Positions

Crawford Graduate Student (2006-2011)

Crawford Post-Doctoral Fellow (2011-2013)

Regulatory Writer at Synchrogenix (2013-2016)

Neuroimaging Genetics Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2016-2018)

Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2018-2021)

 

Recent Publications

  1. Janve, VA, Seto, M, Sperling, RA, Aisen, PS, Rissman, RA, Koran, MEI, Dumitrescu, L, Buckley, RF, Hohman, TJ, A4 and LEARN Study Group et al.. Blood gene expression network expression strongly relates to brain amyloid burden. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (12): e70982. PubMed PMID:41416491 .
  2. Castellano, T, Wang, TC, Nolan, E, Wu, Y, Zhang, M, Clifton, M, Janve, VA, Durant, A, Regelson, A, Cody, K et al.. APOE, ABCA7, and RASGEF1C are associated with earlier onset of amyloid deposition from more than 4000 harmonized positron emission tomography images. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (12): e71006. PubMed PMID:41388821 PubMed Central PMC12701365.
  3. Bolton, CJ, Zhang, P, Wilhoite, SR, Moore, EE, Houston, ML, Pechman, KR, Dumitrescu, L, Peterson, A, Khan, OA, Liu, D et al.. Increased neuroplastic activity in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (11): e70897. PubMed PMID:41315049 PubMed Central PMC12662745.
  4. Lee, ML, Choi, SE, Mukherjee, S, Scollard, P, Nakano, C, Gibbons, LE, Culhane, J, Gauthreaux, K, Chan, KCG, Biber, S et al.. Bridging the gap: addressing NACC's evolving cognition batteries across UDS versions. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (11): e70832. PubMed PMID:41266285 PubMed Central PMC12634217.
  5. Mustafa, Y, Main, LR, Mews, M, Janve, VA, Hohman, TJ, Haines, JL, Song, YE, Griswold, AJ, Pericak-Vance, MA, Scott, WK et al.. Monocyte inflammation and resilience to Alzheimer's disease: novel genetic risk genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study. Transl Psychiatry 2025; 15 (1): 481. PubMed PMID:41253753 PubMed Central PMC12627486.
  6. Godrich, D, Pasteris, J, Martin, ER, Kunkle, B, Naj, AC, Hamilton, K, Wang, H, Lee, WP, Dumitrescu, L, Hohman, TJ et al.. Genome-wide association studies of TDP-43 proteinopathy and hippocampal sclerosis reveal shared genetic associations with APOE and TMEM106B. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (11): e70760. PubMed PMID:41208712 PubMed Central PMC12598407.
  7. Seto, M, Clifton, M, Gomez, ML, Coughlan, G, Gifford, KA, Jefferson, AL, De Jager, PL, Bennett, DA, Wang, Y, Barnes, LL et al.. Sex-specific associations of gene expression with Alzheimer's disease neuropathology and ante-mortem cognitive performance. Nat Commun 2025; 16 (1): 9466. PubMed PMID:41145521 PubMed Central PMC12559284.
  8. Bledsoe, X, Wang, TC, Wu, Y, Archer, D, Chen, HH, Naj, A, Bush, WS, Hohman, TJ, Dumitrescu, L, Below, JE et al.. Neuroimaging PheWAS and molecular phenotyping implicate PSMC3 in Alzheimer's Disease. medRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41001458 PubMed Central PMC12458493.
  9. Kang, M, Ang, TFA, Devine, SA, Sherva, R, Mukherjee, S, Trittschuh, EH, Scollard, P, Lee, M, Choi, SE, Klinedinst, B et al.. Genome-wide pleiotropy analysis of longitudinal blood pressure and harmonized cognitive performance measures. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (9): e70681. PubMed PMID:40951946 PubMed Central PMC12434708.
  10. Kang, K, Zhang, P, Dumitrescu, L, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, SE, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Saykin, AJ, Gifford, KA et al.. The dynamics of cognitive decline toward Alzheimer's disease progression: Results from ADSP-PHC's harmonized cognitive composites. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (6): e70335. PubMed PMID:40538025 PubMed Central PMC12179338.
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