Congratulations to Daniel Whittaker for being awarded a Pilot Grant from the San Diego Nathan Shock Center! Daniel’s project will focus on understanding the contributions of circadian disruption to brain aging.

Daniel Whittaker’s article about using time-restricted feeding to ameliorate Alzheimer’s pathology in mouse models is out in Cell Metabolism! Check out the story from UC San Diego Today: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/intermittent-fasting-improves-alzheimers-pathology

We are excited to announce that Keya successfully defended her Master’s thesis! Congratulations Keya!

Dr. Desplats has been named the Programs Chair for the 2023 Sleep and Circadian Rhythms PIA of the Alzheimer’s Association’s ISTAART network!

Congratulations to Erica and Sanjana for both being accepted into Master’s degree programs starting this fall! We wish them well as they move onto the next chapter of their careers!!

Congratulations to Daniel as the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the UCSD Institutional Grant for Training in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias!!!!

We have received a new award from the Michael J Fox Foundation to further our studies on blood methylation biomarkers for neurodegeneration, now expanding to other molecules!!! Thank MJFF for the continuous support

Our paper studying BDNF as a biomarker for Huntington’s disease in collaboration with the Thomas lab at TSRI made it to Frontiers’ Editor’s Pick for 2021 in Brain Disease Mechanisms. Congrats to Ashley and the whole team!