On 6/13/24, Marina Ritchie, a member of the Grill lab, defended her dissertation and completed the PhD program at UCI. Marina’s research focused on timely recruitment and adequate retention in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials. During her time at UCI, Marina published 9 papers including 7 first-authored publications related to this work. Marina will continue her work as a postdoctoral scholar under the mentorship Dr. Rema Raman, Professor of Neurology at Keck School of Medicine of USC and Director of the Biostatistics and the Recruitment, Engagement, and Retention (RER) Sections at the USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI). Congratulations Dr.…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration. On 6/10/24, the FDA convened its Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee to review the data from pivotal clinical trials of donanemab, one of which was conducted at UCI MIND. Click to read the full commentary about an FDA-convened advisory panel’s recommendations related to donanemab written by UCI MIND director, Dr. Joshua Grill or visit UCI MIND blog.
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Alzheimer’s drug that slows cognitive decline gets FDA approval UCI MIND Director, Dr, Joshua Grill is quoted in the Washington Post about the meaningfulness of lecanemab's clinical benefit. Further discussion on this topic is accessible on UCI MIND blog post. Click to read the article Click to read the blog post
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Want to make an IMPACT in Alzheimer’s clinical trials? Apply for IMPACT-AD A training course, directed by UCI MIND Director, Dr. Joshua Grill and Director of Biostatistics at USC Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute. Click to learn more about IMPACT-AD
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Consumers Can Now Buy a Blood Test to Evaluate Their Alzheimer Disease Risk, but Should They? Chief of the Memory Disorders Division at UCI, Dr. S. Ahmad Sajjadi, who co-authored a blog post with UCI MIND Director, Dr. Joshua Grill was interviewed by the JAMA Network to discuss further about AD-Detect Click to read the article Click to read the blog post
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