Past Crew Member: Logan Dumitrescu, PhD, MS

Previous Positions

Crawford Graduate Student (2006-2011)

Crawford Post-Doctoral Fellow (2011-2013)

Regulatory Writer at Synchrogenix (2013-2016)

Neuroimaging Genetics Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2016-2018)

Current Position

Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (2018-present)

Recent Publications

  1. Seto, M, Clifton, M, Gomez, ML, Coughlan, G, Gifford, KA, Jefferson, AL, De Jager, PL, Bennett, DA, Wang, Y, Barnes, LL et al.. Sex-specific Associations of Gene Expression with Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology and Ante-mortem Cognitive Performance. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:39803447 PubMed Central PMC11722314.
  2. Bolton, CJ, Steinbach, M, Khan, OA, Liu, D, O'Malley, J, Dumitrescu, L, Peterson, A, Jefferson, AL, Hohman, TJ, Zetterberg, H et al.. Clinical and demographic factors modify the association between plasma phosphorylated tau-181 and cognition. Alzheimers Dement (Amst) 2024; 16 (4): e70047. PubMed PMID:39713247 PubMed Central PMC11659951.
  3. Peterson, A, Sathe, A, Zaras, D, Yang, Y, Durant, A, Deters, KD, Shashikumar, N, Pechman, KR, Kim, ME, Gao, C et al.. Sex and APOE ε4 allele differences in longitudinal white matter microstructure in multiple cohorts of aging and Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39711105 .
  4. Phillips, JM, Schneider, JA, Bennett, DA, Crane, PK, Risacher, SL, Saykin, AJ, Dumitrescu, LC, Hohman, TJ, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Astrocyte Reactivity Polygenic Risk Score May Predict Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease. Pac Symp Biocomput 2025; 30 : 488-503. PubMed PMID:39670391 .
  5. Wu, Y, Libby, JB, Dumitrescu, LC, De Jager, PL, Menon, V, Schneider, JA, Bennett, DA, Hohman, TJ. Association of ten VEGF family genes with Alzheimer's disease endophenotypes at single cell resolution. Alzheimers Dement 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39641382 .
  6. Phillips, JM, Winfree, RL, Seto, M, Schneider, JA, Bennett, DA, Dumitrescu, LC, Hohman, TJ. Pathologic and clinical correlates of region-specific brain GFAP in Alzheimer's disease. Acta Neuropathol 2024; 148 (1): 69. PubMed PMID:39580758 PubMed Central PMC11586308.
  7. Sathe, A, Yang, Y, Schilling, KG, Shashikumar, N, Moore, E, Dumitrescu, L, Pechman, KR, Landman, BA, Gifford, KA, Hohman, TJ et al.. Free-water: A promising structural biomarker for cognitive decline in aging and mild cognitive impairment. Imaging Neurosci (Camb) 2024; 2 : 1-16. PubMed PMID:39512598 PubMed Central PMC11540062.
  8. Bolton, CJ, Khan, OA, Liu, D, Wilhoite, S, Dumitrescu, L, Peterson, A, Blennow, K, Zetterberg, H, Hohman, TJ, Jefferson, AL et al.. Cognitive status and demographics modify the association between subjective cognition and amyloid. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2024; 11 (11): 2977-2986. PubMed PMID:39440670 PubMed Central PMC11572737.
  9. Gunasekaran, TI, Meena, D, Lee, AJ, Wu, S, Dumitrescu, L, Sperling, R, Hohman, TJ, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, A4 Study, Huang, J et al.. Genome-wide scan of Flortaucipir PET levels finds JARID2 associated with cerebral tau deposition. medRxiv 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39417126 PubMed Central PMC11482994.
  10. Nho, K, Risacher, SL, Apostolova, LG, Bice, PJ, Brosch, JR, Deardorff, R, Faber, K, Farlow, MR, Foroud, T, Gao, S et al.. CYP1B1-RMDN2 Alzheimer's disease endophenotype locus identified for cerebral tau PET. Nat Commun 2024; 15 (1): 8251. PubMed PMID:39304655 PubMed Central PMC11415491.
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