Welcome to the website for CLARiTI's research portfolio projects, including the TDP-43 Summit 2026. This page features information on events and initiatives from the CLARiTI team at The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The NIA funded nationwide CLARiTI study website is: https://clariti.naccdata.org/

May 21, 2026, Madison, Wisconsin: 8:00am - 5:00pm (CT)
Virtual Option Available!
Please register using the button below:

Co-hosted by:

Henrik Zetterberg, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurochemistry,
University of Gothenburg

Visiting Professor of Pathology,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hartmuth Kolb, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer,
Enigma Biomedical USA

Visiting Professor of Medical Physics,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sterling Johnson, PhD
Principal Investigator, CLARiTI,
Professor of Geriatrics and Dementia,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

TDP-43 Summit 2026 Speakers:

Virginia Lee, PhD
Keynote Speaker

Pathogenesis of TDP-43 Proteinopathies:
An Update

Konstantinos Arfanakis, PhD

MARBLE: An in-vivo MRI marker of LATE-NC

Nicholas Ashton, PhD

Detecting TDP-43 in biofluids: a targeted and non-targeted approach

Sami Barmada, MD, PhD

Lysosomal contributions to TDP43 proteinopathies

Julie Schneider, MD

The Hippocampus in LATE - where Vascular Meets Neurodegenerative Disease in Aging

Cristina Martin Linares, PhD

Leveraging Machine Learning to Uncover TDP-43 Biomarkers

Michael Benatar, MD, PhD

TDP-43 associated neurodegenerative disease (TAND): an integrated biological
and clinical framework

Bill Seeley, MD

Cell type-specific vulnerability and pathobiology in FTLD-TDP and ALS

Tamara Seredenina, PhD

Initial clinical characterization of
[18F]ACI-19626: the first-in-class TDP-43 PET tracer

Gina Wang, PhD

Detection of TDP43 aggregates and TDP43-regulated cryptic exons for TDP43 pathology

Annalisa Lombardo, PhD

Seed amplification assays for TDP-43 across fluids, tissues, and emerging developments

Chris Brown, MD, PhD

Enriching for LATE using Tau-Cognitive Mismatch

Yi Zeng, PhD

Unmasking Cryptic RNA Targets in TDP-43 Proteinopathies

Katie Overmyer, PhD

Methods for splice variant detection and deep proteomics characterization

Content from the Summit will be shared out via this website in the future. Please stay tuned...

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Hosted by Dr. Nathaniel Chin, this episode will cover frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Joining the podcast to discuss this complex disease is Dr. Brad Boeve, principal investigator of the ALLFTD study.

Congratulations to Dr. Henrik Zetterberg

Winner of the Olav Thon Foundation Award for his work on the study: Tau hyperphosphorylation in neuronal development and degeneration (TaNDD): A Nordic translational study. He will be honored alongside his collaborators Professor Tormod Fladby, Akershus University Hospital, Norway;, Sweden; Professor Heikki Tanila, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.

https://olavthonstiftelsen.no/english/winners-of-the-olav-thon-foundation-award-for-excellence-in-teaching-in-higher-education-2026/

Hosted by UW-Madison & Our Sponsors at the
The Edgewater Hotel 1001 Wisconsin Ave, Madison, WI 53703

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