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
- Lorenz, A, Sathe, A, Zaras, D, Yang, Y, Durant, A, Kim, ME, Gao, C, Newlin, NR, Ramadass, K, Kanakaraj, P et al.. The effect of Alzheimer's disease genetic factors on limbic white matter microstructure. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (4): e70130. PubMed PMID:40219815 PubMed Central PMC11992597.
- Dumitrescu, L, Seto, M, Clifton, M, Gomez, ML, Coughlan, G, Gifford, K, Jefferson, A, Jager, P, Bennett, D, Wang, Y et al.. Sex-specific Associations of Gene Expression with Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology and Ante-mortem Cognitive Performance. Res Sq 2025; : . PubMed PMID:40166028 PubMed Central PMC11957198.
- Pettigrew, C, Soldan, A, Wang, J, Hohman, T, Dumitrescu, L, Albert, M, Blennow, K, Bittner, T, Moghekar, A, BIOCARD Study Team et al.. Plasma biomarker trajectories: Impact of AD genetic risk and clinical progression. Alzheimers Dement (Amst) 2025; 17 (1): e70081. PubMed PMID:40151521 PubMed Central PMC11947672.
- Phillips, JM, Dumitrescu, LC, Archer, DB, Regelson, AN, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, SE, Scollard, P, Trittschuh, EH, Kukull, WA et al.. Novel modelling approaches to elucidate the genetic architecture of resilience to Alzheimer's disease. Brain 2025; : . PubMed PMID:40111762 .
- Durant, A, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, SE, Scollard, P, Klinedinst, BS, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Farrer, LA, Gifford, KA et al.. Evaluating the association of APOE genotype and cognitive resilience in SuperAgers. medRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:39830268 PubMed Central PMC11741496.
- 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 towards Alzheimer's Disease Progression: Results from ADSP-PHC's Harmonized Cognitive Composites. medRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:39830238 PubMed Central PMC11741457.
- 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. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:39803447 PubMed Central PMC11722314.
- Bolton, CJ, Steinbach, M, Khan, OA, Liu, D, O'Malley, J, Dumitrescu, L, Peterson, A, Jefferson, AL, Hohman, TJ, Zetterberg, H et al.. Clinical and demographic factors modify the association between plasma phosphorylated tau-181 and cognition. Alzheimers Dement (Amst) 2024; 16 (4): e70047. PubMed PMID:39713247 PubMed Central PMC11659951.
- Peterson, A, Sathe, A, Zaras, D, Yang, Y, Durant, A, Deters, KD, Shashikumar, N, Pechman, KR, Kim, ME, Gao, C et al.. Sex and APOE ε4 allele differences in longitudinal white matter microstructure in multiple cohorts of aging and Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (1): e14343. PubMed PMID:39711105 PubMed Central PMC11781133.
- Phillips, JM, Schneider, JA, Bennett, DA, Crane, PK, Risacher, SL, Saykin, AJ, Dumitrescu, LC, Hohman, TJ, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Astrocyte Reactivity Polygenic Risk Score May Predict Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease. Pac Symp Biocomput 2025; 30 : 488-503. PubMed PMID:39670391 PubMed Central PMC11752824.
