2019 Alzheimer Association Grants
Dawn Mechanic-Hamilton, assistant professor of neuropsychology at PSOM and director of Cognitive Fitness Programs and Neuropsychological Services at the Penn Memory Center, received an Alzheimer’s Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship Program grant for $139,497 over two years for research and the development of a mobile cognitive assessment tool.
Gabor Egervari, postdoctoral researcher in cell and developmental biology, received an Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship (AARF) Program grant of $175,000 over three years for research on ACSS2 and the metabolic-epigenetic axis in Alzheimer’s disease.
Laura Wisse, postdoctoral fellow in radiology, received an AARF Program grant for $175,000 over three years for research on the etiology and progression of suspected non-Alzheimer’s pathophysiology.