This page aims at featuring our early careers researchers. Please feel free to browse through their pages. They all answered several questions regarding their career path and interests.
Cristiano Schaffer Aguzzoli, PhD
Position: Research Associate
Brain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (BraIns)
Very early-onset FTD, neuropsychiatric symptoms
What is your area of research as it relates to FTD?
Neuropsychiatric symptoms as prodromal manifestations of FTD.
What inspired you to do FTD research?
I evaluated a patient who developed very early-onset behavioral variant FTD (24 years of age) during the second year of my residency program in Neurology
What challenges have you faced in FTD research?
Late referrals from the primary care assistance
What hopes do you have for FTD research?
To find biomarkers and treatment
