Early career researchers in FTD
This page aims at featuring our early careers researchers. Please feel free to browse through their pages. They all answered several questions regarding their career path and interests or click on any picture to get to know them better.

Dr Indira Garcia Cordero
Position: Postdoctoral researcher
Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto
Biomarkers, atrophy, functional connectivity, cognition and pathology.

Dr Shelley Forrest
Scientific Associate University of Toronto
Neuropathology, tau, neurons and glial cells, clinicopathological correlations.

Dr Michèle Masson-Trottier
Position: Postdoctoral research fellow
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Speech language pathology, primary progressive aphasia, language, non-invasive brain stimulation.

Dr Elise Dopper
Neurologist
Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam
PSP, CBS, PPA, 7T MRI

Dr Elise Marsan
Position: Assistant Professor/Tenure-track Investigator
NIH/NIA/CARD
AD, FTD, LATE, TDP43, neurodegeneration, glia, omics, organoids

Dr Martina Bocchetta
Position: Lecturer
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Brunel University London
University College London (UK)
Neuroimaging, biomarkers, MRI, neuroanatomy, progression, presymptomatic stages

Dr Mica Clarke
Position: Postdoctoral research fellow
University College London
Neuroimaging, PET, MRI, Biomarkers

Enrico Premi, MD
Position: Neurologist
Stroke Unit, ASST Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
Neuroimaging, frontotemporal dementia

Edoardo Gioele Spinelli
Position: Assistant Professor
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
MRI, neuroimaging, ALS, FTD

Daniel Ohm, PhD
Position: Research Associate University of Pennsylvania
Neuropathology, neuroanatomy, cytoarchitecture, selective vulnerability, neurodegeneration, clinicoanatomical correlations

Dr Qihui Zhou
Position: Group Leader German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
ALS/FTD, Neuroinflammation, Adaptive Immunity

Dr William Scotton
Position: Consultant Neurologist University College London
Genetics, disease progression, biomarkers

Dr Adolfo M. García
Position: Director Cognitive Neuroscience Center, UdeSA, Argentina
Speech, language, neurodegeneration, digital markers, cross-linguistic studies, MRI, fMRI, EEG

Dr Lauren Gittings
Position: Research Assistant Professor Barrow Neurological Institute
C9orf72, FTD, ALS, iPSC, Cryptic Exons

Dr Tomas Leon
Position: Psychiatrist Hospital del Salvador, Chile
BPSD, dementia training, dementia awareness

Sergi Borrego Écija, PhD
Position: Postdoc researcher Hospital Clinic Barcelona
GENFI, neuropathology, genetics, clinical trials

Dr Chris Hardy
Position: Senior Research Fellow University College London
Primary progressive aphasia, auditory cognition, hearing, dementia

Yuto Satake, PhD
Position: Appointed Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University
Neuropsychiatric symptoms

Stephanie Grasso, PhD, CCC-SLP
Position: Assistant Professor University of Texas at Austin
Bilingualism, multilingualism, speech-language intervention, cognitive reserve

Cristiano Schaffer Aguzzoli, PhD
Position: Research Associate Brain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (BraIns)
Very early-onset FTD, neuropsychiatric symptoms

Dr Sheila Castro Suarez, MD
Position: Neurologist Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas, Lima, Peru
Frontotemporal dementia, behavioural variant of FTD

Lydia Velzian
Position: PhD Student University of Auckland
Blood biomarkers, miRNA, protein, extra-cellular vesicles, pre-symptomatic FTD, genetic FTD, MAPT mutation

Dr Maria Mallia
Position: Consultant Neurologist Mater Dei Hospital Malta
Clinical research

Dr Lucy Chisman-Russell
Position: Research Fellow University College London
Cognition, Neuropsychology, Digital Biomarkers, Disease Progression, Clinical

Dr Maxime Montembeault
Position: Assistant professor McGill University
Primary progressive aphasia, Language, Social cognition, Neuropsychology, Digital biomarkers, Neuroimaging

Celine Sakran
Position: Doctoral Student Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto
Neuropathology, Cognition, Neuropsychological Symptoms, Science Communication, Clinical Trials

Leah Forsberg
Position: ALLFTD Program Manager Mayo Clinic
ALLFTD