Tag: Brian Gordon

Board grants faculty appointments, tenure

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Dec. 5, numerous faculty members were appointed, promoted or granted tenure, with most taking effect that day unless otherwise indicated. Appointment with tenure Andrew Witt as a professor of architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts (tenure effective Jan. 1) […]

$5 million for brain development and Alzheimer’s degeneration study

NIH), to examine how early-life stress on the developing brain can influence brain aging and the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Adverse circumstances in the first years of life — such as low birth weight, poverty, unsafe living conditions and exposure to trauma — are known to alter the development of certain brain […]

Link between childhood adverse events, Alzheimer’s disease to be studied

Brian A. Gordon, PhD, an assistant professor of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a principal investigator in the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR)’s Neuroimaging Labs Research Center, was selected for the 2024 New Investigator Award from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center and the Alzheimer’s Association. This award is given […]

Tau-based biomarker tracks Alzheimer’s progression

Two pathologies drive the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Early on, amyloid beta plaques lead the way, but around the time cognitive symptoms arise, tau tangles take over as the driving force and cognition steadily declines. Tracking the course of the disease in individual patients has been challenging because there’s been no easy way to measure […]