Current & Past Scholars
2024 REC Scholars
Researcher Assistant Professor
North Carolina Central University
REC Scholar Project:
APOE4 regulates nicotinic receptor function in the hippocampus
Preventive Medicine Resident
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine
REC Scholar Project:
Individual and Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Polypharmacy Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Dementia: A Nationwide Study
Postdoctoral Fellow
Duke University
REC Scholar Project:
Column-based analyses of cortical iron in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease
2023 REC Scholars
Assistant Professor
East Carolina University
REC Scholar Project:
Improving Health and Well-being of People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and their Family Caregivers in Eastern North Carolina
Postdoctoral Research Associate
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine
REC Scholar Project:
Targeting autophagy to monitor age-related cognitive decline and the dementia risk
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Scholar
Duke University
REC Scholar Project:
Assessing the Interplay of the Built Environment with Midlife Risk for Dementia
2022 REC Scholars
Research Health Scientist
Durham VA Health Care System’s Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT);
Clinical Associate
Duke University School of Nursing
REC Scholar Project:
Development of a Dyadic Stress Management Toolkit for Dementia Caring Dyads
Assistant Professor
School of Life Sciences
ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center
Arizona State University
REC Scholar Project:
Deciphering the Aged Tau Species that Evolve During Normal Aging
Research Assistant Professor
Biotechnology Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE Institute)
North Carolina Central University
REC Scholar Project:
New Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Tauopathies Diagnosis