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Taylor Schmitz
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Research
Latest funding
- $210,000
Inducing VAChT expression, ApoE2 expression, or their combination, to boost cholinergic function and counteract ApoE4-linked deficits in spatial pattern separation
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
- $105,000
The progression of basal forebrain cholinergic dysfunction in individuals at-risk for Alzheimer's disease
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
- $739,560
Leveraging deep biology for brain resilience to AD pathology
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
Inducing VAChT expression, ApoE2 expression, or their combination, to boost cholinergic function and counteract ApoE4-linked deficits in spatial pattern separation
Principal investigators: Batallán Burrowes, Ariel A
Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Apoe; Cholinergic System; Fiber Photometry; Hippocampus; Light Sheet Microscopy; Mri; Pattern Separation; Touchscreen; Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter
The progression of basal forebrain cholinergic dysfunction in individuals at-risk for Alzheimer's disease
Principal investigators: Shanks, Hayley R
Keywords: Aging; Alzheimer'S Disease; Amyloid Beta; Basal Forebrain; Cholinergic; Longitudinal; Positron Emission Tomography; Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Leveraging deep biology for brain resilience to AD pathology
Principal investigators: Schmitz, Taylor W
Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Brain Resilience; Imaging Biomarkers; Mechanisms Of Action; Mouse Models; P75ntr; Pharmacology; Preclinical Trials
TRIDENT: TRanslational Initiative to DE-risk NeuroTherapeutics
Principal investigators: Menon, Ravi
Keywords: cognition; drug discovery; mouse models; marmoset; organoids; imaging; open science; neurodegenerative disease; neurochemistry; neural circuits; sex differences
Linking preclinical mechanisms of neurodegeneration to individual risk profiles of Alzheimer's disease
Principal investigators: Schmitz, Taylor W
Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System; Humans; Longitudinal Design; Mouse Models; Neurodegeneration; Positron Emission Tomography; Preclinical Biomarkers; Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Translational
A non-invasive preclinical biomarker of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's and related demnentias
Principal investigators: Schmitz, Taylor W
Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease
Integrating the neural and biochemical basis of attention in humans
Principal investigators: Schmitz, Taylor
Integrating the neural and biochemical basis of attention in humans
Principal investigators: Schmitz, Taylor
Integrating the neural and biochemical basis of attention in humans
Principal investigators: Schmitz, Taylor
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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