The Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology welcomes applications for a new tenure track faculty position focused on Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative diseases including detecting their antecedent states, identifying risk factors or protective factors, and assessing the effect of interventions including prevention approaches.
The major mission of the successful applicant will be to implement a research program that compliments and/or utilizes the existing infrastructure in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention and the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC).
The motivation for this new position is three-fold. First, while our field has largely succeeded in accurately identifying Alzheimer’s disease (AD) proteinopathy, we lack the ability to identify the other major neurodegenerative diseases and their antecedent states that may be occurring or co-occurring to cause dementia. Such copathologies may have various combinations that are asynchronous in their onsets and may vary in rates of cognitive and clinical progression. The lack of tools that detect in-vivo pathology other than AD has hindered progress. Solutions would greatly inform prevention and treatment strategies, improve diagnosis and prognosis, and accelerate discovery. This gap in knowledge is the anticipated focus of the incumbent. Second, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is home to a National study across the ADRC-network known as the Consortium for Clarity in ADRD Research Through Imaging or CLARiTI which is focused on identifying multi-etiology causes of cognitive impairment; the incumbent would join the investigator team of this study. Three, the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention seeks to expand its scope. The incumbent would be expected to provide leadership and expertise in these endeavors with the WRAP study.