New article! Hormone replacement therapy slows menopause-induced aging across multiple tissues and reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. 🧪 alzscience.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/h...

My latest Careers Column in @nature.com is out today! I discuss how my organization strategies as a biotech cofounder are similar to and different from my strategies during graduate school. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New article: Large study finds anti-retroviral drugs commonly prescribed for HIV and hepatitis B are associated with reduced Alzheimer's risk. 🧪 alzscience.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/a...

Draft Trump budget proposes a $20 billion NIH budget cut in 2026 and a sweeping consolidation

This award supported my PhD work. Devastating to hear that GRFP awards are being slashed.

NSF will award ~1,000 instead of their usual ~2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships this year. NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨HEY DORKS! PROTEST ALERT🚨 Kill The Cuts National Day of Action is Tomorrow, Tuesday April 8th! Find an action near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-... Stand Up for lifesaving research, healthcare, and education! @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social #standupforscience #killthecuts

While this remains to be further investigated, it's yet another potential reason to get your shingles vax. Also, shingles is NOT FUN and has a whole slew of potential and really, really undesirable lasting effects. #vaccineadvocacy #science #research

New article: A natural experiment study finds shingles vaccination reduces dementia risk by 20%. Read more about this study and other news from the past week at the link below. 🧪 alzscience.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/s...

From a source at NIH: “Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed. The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad. Everything is stopped”

📣 Learn more about what disruptions in federal funding can mean for #myotonicDystrophy research. 🔬🧬 MDF surveyed experts in DM research to understand how funding uncertainty may delay the timeline for treatments & a cure. 🔗 Learn more: www.myotonic.org/sites/defaul...

The facility where we’re renting our new biology lab space has free hair ties in the women’s restroom. As someone who has used all kinds of strange alternatives when my hair tie broke during lab work (rubber glove trick, anyone?), I feel seen.

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia https://go.nature.com/3XHRhq5

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

If your research on dementia has been impacted by the layoffs or funding cuts, I’d like to spotlight your work on AlzScience. Please reach out if interested. 🧪

AlzScience is back! After a long hiatus, I'm excited to return to my science blog with new insights on brain health and dementia. 🧠 In my latest article, I reflect on my journey from undergrad to neuroscientist and biotech entrepreneur. 🧪 alzscience.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/a...

It's happening! Stay tuned on Monday morning.

How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging? An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I’m thinking of bringing back my science blog and want to gauge interest. AlzScience translates dementia-related scientific papers into simple language. It fell by the wayside during my PhD, but in this time of defunding biomedical research, it seems important to resume. 🧪 alzscience.wordpress.com

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper. www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...

Nearly a year after deleting my Twitter, I've finally joined up here! Excited to reconnect with everyone.