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
- Seto, M, Weiner, RL, Dumitrescu, L, Hohman, TJ. Protective genes and pathways in Alzheimer's disease: moving towards precision interventions. Mol Neurodegener 2021; 16 (1): 29. PubMed PMID:33926499 PubMed Central PMC8086309.
- Dumitrescu, L, Hohman, TJ. Reply: rs34331204 regulates TSPAN13 expression and contributes to Alzheimer's disease with sex differences. Brain 2020; 143 (11): e96. PubMed PMID:33175951 .
- Dunn, AR, Hadad, N, Neuner, SM, Zhang, JG, Philip, VM, Dumitrescu, L, Hohman, TJ, Herskowitz, JH, O'Connell, KMS, Kaczorowski, CC et al.. Identifying Mechanisms of Normal Cognitive Aging Using a Novel Mouse Genetic Reference Panel. Front Cell Dev Biol 2020; 8 : 562662. PubMed PMID:33042997 PubMed Central PMC7517308.
- Ouellette, AR, Neuner, SM, Dumitrescu, L, Anderson, LC, Gatti, DM, Mahoney, ER, Bubier, JA, Churchill, G, Peters, L, Huentelman, MJ et al.. Cross-Species Analyses Identify Dlgap2 as a Regulator of Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer's Dementia. Cell Rep 2020; 32 (9): 108091. PubMed PMID:32877673 PubMed Central PMC7502175.
- Dumitrescu, L, Mahoney, ER, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Bush, WS, Engelman, CD, Lu, Q, Fardo, DW, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J et al.. Genetic variants and functional pathways associated with resilience to Alzheimer's disease. Brain 2020; 143 (8): 2561-2575. PubMed PMID:32844198 PubMed Central PMC7447518.
- Armstrong, NM, Dumitrescu, L, Huang, CW, An, Y, Tanaka, T, Hernandez, D, Doshi, J, Erus, G, Davatzikos, C, Ferrucci, L et al.. Association of hippocampal volume polygenic predictor score with baseline and change in brain volumes and cognition among cognitively healthy older adults. Neurobiol Aging 2020; 94 : 81-88. PubMed PMID:32593031 .
- Raghavan, NS, Dumitrescu, L, Mormino, E, Mahoney, ER, Lee, AJ, Gao, Y, Bilgel, M, Goldstein, D, Harrison, T, Engelman, CD et al.. Association Between Common Variants in RBFOX1, an RNA-Binding Protein, and Brain Amyloidosis in Early and Preclinical Alzheimer Disease. JAMA Neurol 2020; 77 (10): 1288-1298. PubMed PMID:32568366 PubMed Central PMC7309575.
- Archer, DB, Moore, EE, Shashikumar, N, Dumitrescu, L, Pechman, KR, Landman, BA, Gifford, KA, Jefferson, AL, Hohman, TJ. Free-water metrics in medial temporal lobe white matter tract projections relate to longitudinal cognitive decline. Neurobiol Aging 2020; 94 : 15-23. PubMed PMID:32502831 PubMed Central PMC7483422.
- Jansen, IE, Savage, JE, Watanabe, K, Bryois, J, Williams, DM, Steinberg, S, Sealock, J, Karlsson, IK, Hägg, S, Athanasiu, L et al.. Author Correction: Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer's disease risk. Nat Genet 2020; 52 (3): 354. PubMed PMID:32029921 .
- Mahoney, ER, Dumitrescu, L, Seto, M, Nudelman, KNH, Buckley, RF, Gifford, KA, Saykin, AJ, Jefferson, AJ, Hohman, TJ. Telomere length associations with cognition depend on Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. Alzheimers Dement (N Y) 2019; 5 : 883-890. PubMed PMID:31890852 PubMed Central PMC6926345.
