
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)
Current Position
Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2018-present)
Recent Publications
- Patterson, KL, Arul, AB, Choi, MJ, Oliver, NC, Whitaker, MD, Bodrick, AC, Libby, JB, Hansen, S, Dumitrescu, L, Gifford, KA et al.. Establishing Quality Control Procedures for Large-Scale Plasma Proteomics Analyses. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2023; : . PubMed PMID:37163770 .
- Ali, M, Archer, DB, Gorijala, P, Western, D, Timsina, J, Fernández, MV, Wang, TC, Satizabal, CL, Yang, Q, Beiser, AS et al.. Large multi-ethnic genetic analyses of amyloid imaging identify new genes for Alzheimer disease. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2023; 11 (1): 68. PubMed PMID:37101235 PubMed Central PMC10134547.
- Bai, H, Naj, AC, Benchek, P, Dumitrescu, L, Hohman, T, Hamilton-Nelson, K, Kallianpur, AR, Griswold, AJ, Vardarajan, B, Martin, ER et al.. A haptoglobin (HP) structural variant alters the effect of APOE alleles on Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2023; : . PubMed PMID:37051669 .
- Pettigrew, C, Nazarovs, J, Soldan, A, Singh, V, Wang, J, Hohman, T, Dumitrescu, L, Libby, J, Kunkle, B, Gross, AL et al.. Alzheimer's disease genetic risk and cognitive reserve in relationship to long-term cognitive trajectories among cognitively normal individuals. Alzheimers Res Ther 2023; 15 (1): 66. PubMed PMID:36978190 PubMed Central PMC10045505.
- Winfree, RL, Seto, M, Dumitrescu, L, Menon, V, De Jager, P, Wang, Y, Schneider, J, Bennett, DA, Jefferson, AL, Hohman, TJ et al.. TREM2 gene expression associations with Alzheimer's disease neuropathology are region-specific: implications for cortical versus subcortical microglia. Acta Neuropathol 2023; 145 (6): 733-747. PubMed PMID:36966244 PubMed Central PMC10175463.
- Seto, M, Dumitrescu, L, Mahoney, ER, Sclafani, AM, De Jager, PL, Menon, V, Koran, MEI, Robinson, RA, Ruderfer, DM, Cox, NJ et al.. Multi-omic characterization of brain changes in the vascular endothelial growth factor family during aging and Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging 2023; 126 : 25-33. PubMed PMID:36905877 PubMed Central PMC10106439.
- Libby, JB, Seto, M, Khan, OA, Liu, D, Petyuk, V, Oliver, NC, Choi, MJ, Whitaker, M, Patterson, KL, Arul, AB et al.. Whole blood transcript and protein abundance of the vascular endothelial growth factor family relate to cognitive performance. Neurobiol Aging 2023; 124 : 11-17. PubMed PMID:36680854 PubMed Central PMC9957941.
- Eissman, JM, Wells, G, Khan, OA, Liu, D, Petyuk, VA, Gifford, KA, Dumitrescu, L, Jefferson, AL, Hohman, TJ. Polygenic resilience score may be sensitive to preclinical Alzheimer's disease changes. Pac Symp Biocomput 2023; 28 : 449-460. PubMed PMID:36540999 PubMed Central PMC9888419.
- Mukherjee, S, Choi, SE, Lee, ML, Scollard, P, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Saykin, AJ, Gibbons, LE, Sanders, RE, Zaman, AF et al.. Cognitive domain harmonization and cocalibration in studies of older adults. Neuropsychology 2022; : . PubMed PMID:35925737 PubMed Central PMC9898463.
- Winfree, RL, Dumitrescu, L, Blennow, K, Zetterberg, H, Gifford, KA, Pechman, KR, Jefferson, AL, Hohman, TJ, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Biological correlates of elevated soluble TREM2 in cerebrospinal fluid. Neurobiol Aging 2022; 118 : 88-98. PubMed PMID:35908327 PubMed Central PMC9707345.