Claudia Satizabal, PhD

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Population Health Sciences of UT
Health San Antonio, and the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's &
Neurodegenerative Diseases, where I lead the Population Neuroscience core. I am
also a Framingham Heart Study investigator and conduct research with the
neurology core since 2013. My research focuses on the epidemiology of lifestyle
and genetic determinants influencing stroke, imaging markers of brain aging,
cognitive decline, and dementia. My contributions to the scientific literature
encompass temporal trends in dementia incidence; the genetic architecture of
dementia and related endophenotypes (structural and small vessel disease MRI
markers, fluid biomarkers, cognitive function), as well as the identification
of circulating biomarkers (inflammatory, growth factors, adipokines, fatty
acids) of dementia.      
I am the co-PI of an R01 grant to study the associations of mitochondrial
traits with Alzheimer’s disease risk and related endophenotypes in the
Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program. I am also the PI of a
state study to characterize the microbiome in Alzheimer’s disease in the Texas
Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium (TARCC). I co-chair the Neurology
working group of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic
Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium, oversee the San Antonio site for the MarkVCID
consortium, and participate in several other national and international
consortia.