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. 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 .
  2. 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 .
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Soldan, A, Wang, J, Pettigrew, C, Davatzikos, C, Erus, G, Hohman, TJ, Dumitrescu, L, Bilgel, M, Resnick, SM, Rivera-Rivera, LA et al.. Alzheimer's disease genetic risk and changes in brain atrophy and white matter hyperintensities in cognitively unimpaired adults. Brain Commun 2024; 6 (5): fcae276. PubMed PMID:39229494 PubMed Central PMC11369827.
  9. Peterson, A, Sathe, A, Zaras, D, Yang, Y, Durant, A, Deters, KD, Shashikumar, N, Pechman, KR, Kim, ME, Gao, C et al.. Sex, racial, and APOE-ε4 allele differences in longitudinal white matter microstructure in multiple cohorts of aging and Alzheimer's disease. bioRxiv 2024; : . PubMed PMID:38915636 PubMed Central PMC11195046.
  10. Yan, D, Hu, B, Darst, BF, Mukherjee, S, Kunkle, BW, Deming, Y, Dumitrescu, L, Wang, Y, Naj, A, Kuzma, A et al.. Biobank-wide association scan identifies risk factors for late-onset Alzheimer's disease and endophenotypes. Elife 2024; 12 : . PubMed PMID:38787369 PubMed Central PMC11126309.
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