Happy New Year!!

As 2026 begins, let us take a look at all our PNA Trainees accomplished in 2025!

PNA Published Manuscripts of 2025

• Witonsky, K., Zhu, X., Rosso, A. L., Newman, A., & Rosano, C. (2025). Joint Pain and Leisure-Time Physical Activity: Cross-Sectional Findings From the Cardiovascular Health Study. Health science reports, 8(2), e70367. https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.70367
• Jock J, Beidelman ET, Phillips M, Kobayashi LC, Chen X, et al. (2025) Effects of pension eligibility expansion on men’s memory decline and dementia probability: Findings from the HAALSI cohort in rural South Africa, 2014–2021. PLOS ONE 20(6): e0326321. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326321
• Gloger EM, Smith PJ, Segerstrom SC. Higher interleukin-6 (IL-6) is associated with decline in psychomotor processing speed but not executive functioning in older adults: Gender-specific effects. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2025 Oct 7;80(11):gbaf106. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaf106. PMID: 41083195; PMCID: PMC12517746.
• Gloger, E. M., Hong, J. H., Mogle, J., Almeida, D. M., & Greaney, J. L. (2025). Greater negative affective responsivity to daily stressors is positively related to urinary norepinephrine excretion in middle-aged adults. Journal of Applied Physiology, 138(5), 1251-1260
• Barton, D. J., Fan, E. K., Gober, I. G., Awan, N., Kumar, R. G., Carlson, J. C., Frankel, M. R., Wright, D. W., & Wagner, A. K. (2025). Traumatic Brain Injury Severity Measured by Clinical, Radiographical, and Blood Biomarker Measures Is Associated with Non-Neurological Organ Dysfunction: A Secondary Analysis of ProTECT III and Bio-ProTECT. Journal of neurotrauma, 42(21-22), 1947–1958.
• Dunlap, P. M., Fan, E. K., Hubbard, Z. L., VonVille, H. M., Strotmeyer, E. S., & Rosso, A. L. (2025). Outdoor Environmental Risk Factors for Falls and Fear of Falling: A Systematic Review. The Gerontologist, 65(5), gnaf078. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf078
• Xu R, Tian Q, Marron MM, et al. Metabolomic insight into the link of intermuscular fat with cognitive performance: the Health ABC Study. Geroscience. 2025;47(3):4531-4543. doi:10.1007/s11357-025-01559-z
• Xu J, Sui Y, Li J, … Xu R et al. Patterns and Correlates of Concurrent Serum Vitamin D, Folate, and Vitamin B12 Status in a Rural Chinese Population. J Nutr. 2025;155(10):3506-3516. doi:10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.08.010
• Cheng, G. J., Shaaban, C. E., Gary-Webb, T., Mair, C., Buchanich, J. M., & Rosso, A. L. (2025). The associations between midlife neighborhood socioeconomic conditions and late-life cognitive trajectories: The mediating roles of hemoglobin A1c and blood pressure. Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
• Hu C, Son J, McAlpine L, et al. Long COVID in people with multiple sclerosis and related disorders: a multicenter cross- sectional study. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 2025,.
• Hu, C., Zeng, X., Zhang, L., et al. (2025). Plasma phosphorylated tau 181 and 217 as biomarkers for multiple sclerosis diagnosis, subtyping, and prognosis. medRxiv, 2025.2004.2030.25326752. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.30.25326752
• Tirado, L.A.R., Cohen, A.D., Shaaban, C.E., et al. (2025), Synergistic effects of peripheral inflammation and neuroinflammation on amyloid, vascular, and neurodegeneration markers across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum. Alzheimer’s Dement., 21: e099147. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz70856_099147
• Berumen, J., Kuri-Morales, P., Torres, J. M., Aguilar-Ramirez, D., Gnatiuc Friedrichs, L., & Emberson, J. R. (2025). The impact of Indigenous American genomic ancestry on type 2 diabetes in Mexico: an analysis of 134,548 individuals from the Mexico City Prospective Study. Lancet Public Health.
• Song, Y., Rosano, C., Cvejkus, R. K., Acevedo‐Fontánez, A. I., Zmuda, J. M., Wheeler, V., Catov, J. M., & Miljkovic, I. (2025). Reproductive health history and later life cognition in African Caribbean women. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 21(8), e70547

Notable Milestones of 2025

• Authored a pilot grant submitted to the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center
• Preparation for a K01 Grant
• Submission of F30 Grant
• PhD Preliminary Exams passed
• Overview Exams passed
• Comprehensive Exams passed
• Graduated from Epidemiology MPH program
• Successful Dissertation Defenses
• The Pitt Un-Challenge: Phase 1 Winter 2025 – Finalist Round
• Completed all PhD course credit requirements
• Completed ChangeMaker Series Fall 2025 Program (Big Idea Center, Pitt)
• Won the Evelyn Memorial Award (February 2025)
• Won the Travel Award (The Human Amyloid Imaging Conference, 2025 Puerto Rico)

Presentations/Conferences attended in 2025

• Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI) Conference (January 2025)
• Population Association of America Annual Meeting (April 2025)
• GSA Advocacy (Capitol Hill) Day (April 2025)
• Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA. (June 2025)
• Alzheimer’s Imaging Consortium (AIC) Preconference (July 2025)
• Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) (July 2025)
• The Gerontological Society of America. Boston (November 2025)