Junior Faculty Awards
The Organizing Committee of AD/PD™ 2021 recognized the top junior and trainee abstract presenters with Junior Faculty Awards.
Recipients of this award gave an oral presentation on their research during the Conference.
**Eligible candidates for the Junior Faculty Awards are graduate students (PhD, MD) or junior scientists up to five years after the doctorate degree (PhD, MD)
Congratulations to the 2021 winners!
![Franziska Albrecht](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Franziska-Albrecht.png)
Franziska Albrecht, Sweden
A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL STUDY OF A HIGHLY CHALLENGING BALANCE AND GAIT TRAINING AND ITS EFFECT ON BRAIN STRUCTURE
![Alexander Bampton](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Alexander-Bampton.png)
Alexander Bampton, UK
NEURONAL MISLOCALISATION OF HNRNP K IN FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION AND AGEING
![Silvia Basaia](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Silvia-Basaia.png)
Silvia Basaia, Italy
STEPWISE CONNECTIVITY REVEALS THE SPREADING OF PATHOLOGY IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
![Michael Belloy](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Michael-Belloy.png)
Michael Belloy, USA
ASSOCIATION OF APOE SPLICE QTLS WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE RISK IN APOE*4/4 CARRIERS
![Liene Bossaerts](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Liene-Bossaerts.png)
Liene Bossaerts, Belgium
RARE SINGLE MISSENSE MUTATIONS IN ABCA7 AND RARE COMPOUND HETEROZYGOUS CARRIERS CONTRIBUTE TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN BELGIAN PATIENTS
![Gemma Salvadó Blasco](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Gemma-Salvado-Blasco.png)
Gemma Salvadó Blasco, Spain
VISUAL ASSESSMENT OF [18F]FLUTEMETAMOL PET IMAGES CAN DETECT EARLY AMYLOID PATHOLOGY AND GRADE ITS EXTENT
![Lyduine Collij](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Lyduine-Collij.png)
Lyduine Collij, The Netherlands
VISUAL ASSESSMENT OF [18F]FLUTEMETAMOL PET IMAGES CAN DETECT EARLY AMYLOID PATHOLOGY AND GRADE ITS EXTENT
![Camilla Cividini](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Camilla-Cividini.png)
Camilla Cividini, Italy
BRAIN ARCHITECTURE CHANGES ACROSS THE FTLD SPECTRUM
![Astrid Feiten](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Astrid-Feiten.png)
Astrid Feiten, Australia
TREM2 REDUCTION EXPEDITES BEHAVIOURAL DEFICITS IN P301S TAU TRANSGENIC MICE
![Irene Frigerio](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Irene-Frigerio.png)
Irene Frigerio, The Netherlands
CORTICAL THICKNESS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: DIFFERENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF AMYLOID-BETA AND P-TAU LOAD
![Helena Gossye](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Helena-Gossye.png)
Helena Gossye, Belgium
IN-DEPTH PHENOTYPIC DESCRIPTION OF PATHOGENIC TBK1 MUTATIONS; A FREQUENT CAUSE OF FTD AND ALS IN THE FLANDERS-BELGIAN POPULATION
![Jack Humphrey](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Jack-Humphrey.png)
Jack Humphrey, USA
AN ATLAS OF GENETIC REGULATORY EFFECTS ON THE TRANSCRIPTOME OF HUMAN MICROGLIA
![Amanda Katherine McQuade](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Amanda-Katherine-McQuade.png)
Amanda Katherine McQuade, USA
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ALZHEIMER’S RISK FACTORS TREM2 AND MS4A6A IN HUMAN IPS-MICROGLIA
![Matej Perovnik](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Matej-Perovnik.png)
Matej Perovnik, Slovenia
METABOLIC BRAIN PATTERN IN PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES IS NOT EXPRESSED IN ALZHEIMER’S DEMENTIA PATIENTS
![Lianne Reus](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Lianne-Reus.png)
Lianne Reus, The Netherlands
FUNCTIONAL INTERPRETATION OF GENETIC RISK LOCI FOR DEMENTIA USING A PROTEIN QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI (PQTLS) APPROACH IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
![Steven Yap](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Steven-Yap.png)
Steven Yap, United Kingdom
ABILITY OF NEXT-GENERATION TAU PET TRACERS TO DISCRIMINATE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE HISTOPATHOLOGY FROM OTHER DEMENTIAS
![Denis Smirnov](https://adpd2021.kenes.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2021/01/Denis-Smirnov.png)
Denis Smirnov, USA
AGE-OF-ONSET-RELATED COGNITIVE VARIABILITY IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE (AD) IS MEDIATED BY THE DISTRIBUTION OF TANGLE PATHOLOGY RATHER THAN CONCOMITANT NON-AD PATHOLOGY