Charleston Conference on Alzheimer's Disease selects Dr. Ai-Ling Lin as a top 15 Early Career Investigator
Dr. Ai-Ling Lin has been selected as one of the top 15 Early Career Investigators from a highly competitive pool of applicants to participate and compete in the 4th Annual Charleston Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (CCAD) to be held in Charleston, SC march 10-13, 2016. The CCAD New Vision Awards are intended to support projects that are highly innovative and that challenge the current paradigm and/or push the frontiers of AD research. During the conference, she will have the opportunity to interact with leading researchers in AD, participate in a mock NIH study section and compete for one of three $50,000 New Vision Awards.
Dr. Lin and her laboratory also recently published an article entitled "Early Shifts of Brain Metabolism by Caloric Restriction Preserve White Matter Integrity and Long-Term Memory in Aging Mice" in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. The first author of this publication is Janet Guo, a Dunbar High School MSTC student (also daughter of Drs. Ming Gong of the Department of Physiology and Zhenheng Guo of DPNS).
Dr. Lin’s graduate student, Jared Hoffman, also recently received the 1st place poster award at the American College of Nutrition held in Orlando, Fl. Congratulations to Dr. Lin and her group of talented young scientists!
