Physician-Scientist
Training Program
Physician-Scientist
Training Program
Resident, future Cardiovascular fellow
B.S., Neuroscience — University of Minnesota
M.D./Ph.D. — University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
2022
Silver Scalpel Award
2020-21
American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship
2020
Paul D. Doolen Graduate Student Scholarship for the Study of Aging
2019
Award for Graduate Research, Graduate College
G.H. Miller Symposium award, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
2018
Award for Excellence, Peer Education Program
Young Investigator Scholarship, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
TBD
Mendelson JB, Sternbach JD, Blake JC, Kim M, Moon RA, Raveendran RM, Hartweck LM, Tollison W, Lahiri M, Carney JP, Markowski T, Higgins L, Lewandowski CT, Kazmirczak F, Choudhary G, Prins KW. Multi-omic Evaluations Nominate an ER-Mitochondrial Axis and Inflammatory Macrophage as Drivers of Right Atrial Dysfunction. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Mar 25:2025.03.22.644722. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.22.644722. PMID: 40196578; PMCID: PMC11974768.
Velma GR, Laham MS, Lewandowski C, Valencia-Olvera AC, Balu D, Moore A, Ackerman-Berrier M, Rychetsky P, Penton C, Musku SR, Annadurai A, Sulaiman MI, Ma N, J Thatcher GR. Nonlipogenic ABCA1 Inducers (NLAI) for Alzheimer's Disease Validated in a Mouse Model Expressing Human APOE3/APOE4. J Med Chem. 2024 Aug 27. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00733. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39191400.
Lewandowski, C.T., Laham, M.S., & Thatcher, G.R.J. 2022. Remembering your A, B, C's: Alzheimer's disease and ABCA1. Acta Pharm. Sin. B 12(3): 995-1018.
Lewandowski, C.T., Khan, M.W., Ben Aissa, M., Dubrovskyi, O., Ackerman-Berrier, M., LaDu, M.J., Layden, B.T., & Thatcher, G.R.J. 2021. Metabolomic analysis of a selective ABCA1 inducer in obesogenic challenge provides a rationale for therapeutic development. EBioMedicine 66(1): 103287.
Ben Aissa, M., Lewandowski, C.T., Ratia, K.M., Lee, S.H., Layden, B.T., LaDu, M.J., & Thatcher, G.R.J. 2021. Discovery of nonlipogenic ABCA1 inducing compounds with potential in Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes. ACS Pharmacol. Transl. Sci. 4(1): 143-154.
Lewandowski, C.T., Maldonado Weng, J., & LaDu, M.J. 2020. Alzheimer's disease pathology in APOE transgenic mouse models: the who, what, when, where, why, and how. Neurobiol. Dis. 139(1): 104811.
Khasabova, I.A., Yao, X., Paz, J., Lewandowski, C.T., Lindberg, A.E., Coicou, L., Burlakova, N., Simone, D.A., & Seybold, V.S. 2014. JZL184 is anti-hyperalgesic in a murine model of cisplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy. Pharmacol. Res. 90(1): 67-75.
Peterson, K.L., Dang, J.V., Weitz, E.A., Lewandowski, C., & Pierre, V.C. 2014. Effect of lanthanide complex structure on cell viability and association. Inorg. Chem. 53(12): 6013-6021.
Weitz, E.A., Lewandowski, C., Smolensky, E.D., Marjanska, M., & Pierre, V.C. 2013. A magnetoplasmonic imaging agent for copper(I) with dual response by MRI and dark field microscopy. ACS Nano. 7(7): 5842-5849.
Smolensky, E.D., Peterson, K.L., Weitz, E.A., Lewandowski, C., & Pierre, V.C. 2013. Magnetoluminescent light switches - dual modality in DNA detection. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135(24): 8966-8972.