| Aug 13, 2026 | Thrilled to receive an Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant Award (AARGA) for “Gene-Environment Interactions for Personalized Dementia Risk Assessment”! This project will examine how Alzheimer’s disease polygenic and clinical risk scores interact to influence biomarkers of disease pathology and clinical progression. |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Our new review, led by Paulina Tolosa-Tort, is now published in npj Dementia! “Toward personalized medicine in AD/ADRD through genetic-exposome dementia risk assessments” outlines how integrating genetic and environmental risk factors could support earlier, more personalized, and more equitable dementia prevention. |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Congratulations to Meri Okorie on the publication of the first two papers from her PhD! In Alzheimer’s & Dementia, Meri and colleagues show how cross-ancestry polygenic risk scores can improve Alzheimer’s disease risk prediction in multiethnic cohorts and how dementia polyexposure scores relate to Alzheimer’s disease endophenotypes in a diverse population. |
| Apr 06, 2026 | Excited to share our new JAMA Neurology Viewpoint, “Advancing Precision Dementia Care With Genetic-Exposome Risk Assessment”, co-authored with Kristine Yaffe! We outline how integrating genetic and exposome risk could support earlier, more personalized approaches to dementia prevention. |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Excited to receive a UCSF Resource Allocation Program award for “Validation and Co-design of a Genomic-Exposome Dementia Risk Assessment”! This project will evaluate the clinical utility of integrated genetic-exposome risk reports for dementia and co-develop patient-facing reports with community members and clinical stakeholders. |
| Mar 10, 2023 | My new review on “The complex genetic architecture of Alzheimer’s disease: novel insights and future directions” is now out in eBioMedicine! |
| Jan 15, 2023 | This personal website is finally live! |
| Nov 02, 2022 | Excited to see our review on “Microglial efferocytosis: Diving into the Alzheimer’s disease gene pool” now out in Neuron, led by the fantastic Carmen Romero! |
| Jul 01, 2022 | Officially started at the University of California, San Francisco. The Andrews Lab is now open! |