Position: Postdoctoral researcher
Dr Indira Garcia Cordero
Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto Biomarkers, atrophy, functional connectivity, cognition and pathology.
Dr Shelley Forrest
Scientific Associate University of Toronto
Neuropathology, tau, neurons and glial cells, clinicopathological correlations.
Dr Michèle Masson-Trottier
Position: Postdoctoral research fellow
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Speech language pathology, primary progressive aphasia, language, non-invasive brain stimulation.
Dr Elise Marsan
Position: Assistant Professor/Tenure-track Investigator
NIH/NIA/CARD
AD, FTD, LATE, TDP43, neurodegeneration, glia, omics, organoids
Dr Martina Bocchetta
Position: Lecturer
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Brunel University London
University College London (UK)
Neuroimaging, biomarkers, MRI, neuroanatomy, progression, presymptomatic stages
Dr Mica Clarke
Position: Postdoctoral research fellow
University College London
Neuroimaging, PET, MRI, Biomarkers
Enrico Premi, MD
Position: Neurologist
Stroke Unit, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
Neuroimaging, frontotemporal dementia
Edoardo Gioele Spinelli
Position: Assistant Professor
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
MRI, neuroimaging, ALS, FTD
Daniel Ohm, PhD
Position: Research Associate University of Pennsylvania
Neuropathology, neuroanatomy, cytoarchitecture, selective vulnerability, neurodegeneration, clinicoanatomical correlations
Dr Qihui Zhou
Position: Group Leader German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
ALS/FTD, Neuroinflammation, Adaptive Immunity
Dr William Scotton
Position: Consultant Neurologist University College London
Genetics, disease progression, biomarkers
Dr Adolfo M. García
Position: Director Cognitive Neuroscience Center, UdeSA, Argentina
Speech, language, neurodegeneration, digital markers, cross-linguistic studies, MRI, fMRI, EEG
Dr Lauren Gittings
Position: Research Assistant Professor Barrow Neurological Institute
C9orf72, FTD, ALS, iPSC, Cryptic Exons
Dr Tomas Leon
Position: Psychiatrist Hospital del Salvador, Chile
BPSD, dementia training, dementia awareness
Sergi Borrego Écija, PhD
Position: Postdoc researcher Hospital Clinic Barcelona
GENFI, neuropathology, genetics, clinical trials
Dr Chris Hardy
Position: Senior Research Fellow University College London
Primary progressive aphasia, auditory cognition, hearing, dementia
Yuto Satake, PhD
Position: Appointed Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University
Neuropsychiatric symptoms
Stephanie Grasso, PhD, CCC-SLP
Position: Assistant Professor University of Texas at Austin
Bilingualism, multilingualism, speech-language intervention, cognitive reserve
Cristiano Schaffer Aguzzoli, PhD
Position: Research Associate Brain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (BraIns)
Very early-onset FTD, neuropsychiatric symptoms
Dr Sheila Castro Suarez, MD
Position: Neurologist Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru
Frontotemporal dementia, behavioural variant of FTD
Lydia Velzian
Position: PhD Student University of Auckland
Blood biomarkers, miRNA, protein, extra-cellular vesicles, pre-symptomatic FTD, genetic FTD, MAPT mutation
Dr Lucy Chisman-Russell
Position: Research Fellow University College London
Cognition, Neuropsychology, Digital Biomarkers, Disease Progression, Clinical
Dr Maxime Montembeault
Position: Assistant professor McGill University
Primary progressive aphasia, Language, Social cognition, Neuropsychology, Digital biomarkers, Neuroimaging
Celine Sakran
Position: Doctoral Student Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto
Neuropathology, Cognition, Neuropsychological Symptoms, Science Communication, Clinical Trials
Jessica L. Hazelton
Position: Lead internal communications officer
For the ISFTD EMCR committee.
Sylvia Josephy-Hernandez
Position: Neurologist and Neuropsychiatrist
At the Mexico Hospital in San Jose, Costa Rica
Sterre de Boer
Position: Medical doctor and post-doctoral researcher
At the Alzheimercentrum Amsterdam, AmsterdamUMC
Emma Rhodes
Position: Assistant professor and clinical neuropsychologist
In the Neurology department at the University of Pennsylvania
Hidetomo Tanaka
Position: Europathologist and a Research Fellow
At the Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CNRD)
Oriol Dols-Icardo
Focused on the study of the genetic overlap in the continuum of frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Emily Feneberg
Position: Consultant neurologist and postdoctoral researcher
At the Technical University of Munich
Jackie Poos
Position: Postdoctoral researcher
At the Alzheimercenter Erasmus MC, Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam
