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).