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
- Eissman, JM, Dumitrescu, L, Mahoney, ER, Smith, AN, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Scollard, P, Choi, SE, Bush, WS, Engelman, CD et al.. Sex differences in the genetic architecture of cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's disease. Brain 2022; : . PubMed PMID:35552371 .
- Seto, M, Mahoney, ER, Dumitrescu, L, Ramanan, VK, Engelman, CD, Deming, Y, Albert, M, Johnson, SC, Zetterberg, H, Blennow, K et al.. Exploring common genetic contributors to neuroprotection from amyloid pathology. Brain Commun 2022; 4 (2): fcac066. PubMed PMID:35425899 PubMed Central PMC9006043.
- Khan, MJ, Chung, NA, Hansen, S, Dumitrescu, L, Hohman, TJ, Kamboh, MI, Lopez, OL, Robinson, RAS. Targeted Lipidomics To Measure Phospholipids and Sphingomyelins in Plasma: A Pilot Study To Understand the Impact of Race/Ethnicity in Alzheimer's Disease. Anal Chem 2022; 94 (10): 4165-4174. PubMed PMID:35235294 PubMed Central PMC9126486.
- Mahoney, E, Janve, V, Hohman, TJ, Dumitrescu, L. Evaluation of Sex-Aware PrediXcan Models for Predicting Gene Expression. Pac Symp Biocomput ; 27 : 361-372. PubMed PMID:34890163 PubMed Central PMC8924937.
- 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 PubMed Central PMC8893954.
