Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease and Endophenotypes: Nilufer Ertekin-Taner

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Lab highlights

January 2023

• Mayo Clinic Investigators Work to Develop a Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease (Jacksonville Free Press)

June 2022

• New study could create a breakthrough in diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (MPR News)

May 2022

• A new study could lead to faster, cheaper tests for Alzheimer’s disease. Local health care professionals say it could improve care for people of color (Sahan Journal)

April 2022

• Health Tips Tuesday: plasma screening and Alzheimer’s diagnosis (Mass News)

March 2022

• Newly discovered Alzheimer's biomarkers may bring more equitable screening tests, Mayo Clinic finds (Fiercebiotech.com)
• Six new plasma biomarkers could improve diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (NeurologyToday)

February 2022

• Shared gene patterns in neurodegenerative diseases (Inside Mayo Clinic Research)
• In neurodegenerative diseases, research finds shared gene patterns, widespread damage (Mayo Clinic News Center)

January 2020

October 2019

July 2019

• Five habits can reduce dementia risk — but you've got to go all in (Quartz)

May 2019

• Degenerative brain disease robs local 44-year-old man of personality and speech (Action News Jax)

April 2019

November 2018

• Mayo Clinic Florida and Arizona Investigators of the Year (Mayo Clinic Alumni Association)
• Neuroscience powerhouses at Mayo Clinic in Florida (Advancing the Science — Mayo Clinic Medical Science Blog)

November 2017

• Health Care Heroes: Nilufer Ertekin-Taner (Jacksonville Business Journal)
• 2017 FAANs (American Academy of Neurology)
• Mayo Clinic study: New gene mutation may be risk factor for Alzheimer's in African-Americans (Action News Jax)

May 2017

• Identifying therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease with big data (Future Medicine)

March 2017

• Study Connects Genes to Late Onset Alzheimer's in African-Americans (NBC News)
• Study Shows African-Americans Prone to Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease (Ebony)

February 2017

• Mayo Clinic publishes genetic screen for Alzheimer's in African-Americans (BioFlorida)

November 2015

• Mayo Clinic awarded $5.3 million federal grant to study vascular risk factors in dementia (Mayo Clinic News Network)

Additional news releases

• Mayo Clinic Researchers Receive $1.2 Million from New Florida Program to Study Alzheimer's (Mayo Clinic News Network)
• Real Life Experience, Confidence — and Awards (UniLife magazine)
• Mayo Clinic: Researchers to Study Body's Defense System to Find New Treatments for Alzheimer's (Mayo Clinic News Network)
• Study to Find New Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease — Mayo Clinic (YouTube)
• Identifying Novel Drug Targets in AD Using Brain Gene Expression (Grant) (BrightFocus Foundation)
• Genetic Variants in Alzheimer's Disease (Amazon)
• Gene May Help Identify Risk of Alzheimer's in African Americans, Mayo Clinic Says (Mayo Clinic News Network)
• Mapping Genes: Mayo Clinic Finds New Risk Factors for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Mayo Clinic News Network)
• Using New Approach, Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Level of Gene Alters Risk of Alzheimer's Disease (EurekAlert!)
• Mayo Clinic's Brain Bank Drives Big Research Finds (Jacksonville Business Journal)
• Mayo Researchers Find Key Alzheimer's Gene (Jacksonville Business Journal)