Congratulations to PNA trainee Alum Dr. Shruthi Venkatesh on the successful defense of her PhD dissertation yesterday: Generating Robust Real-World Evidence for Advancing Discovery in Alzheimer’s Disease.
As a great example of Population Neuroscience, Shruthi deftly wove together multiple fields and approaches in her defense including epidemiology, neuroscience, bioinformatics, machine learning, and clinical perspectives.
Congratulations Dr. Venkatesh, we can’t wait to see what comes next!
We are thrilled to celebrate PNA member Dr. Chen Hu on the successful defense of her dissertation, Determinants and Optimization of Disability Outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis: Applications of Markov Models and Causal Inference Framework!! Her research uses real-world...
Exciting new research from our team published in JAMA Internal Medicine! A recently published study titled "Homicide Risk During 10-Day Waiting Period Among First-Time Handgun Purchasers in California" of over 1 million first-time handgun purchasers in California...
The McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA) welcomed PNA's very own Dr. Rosano to campus on May 13, 2026, for the second annual Suzanne Labarge Lecture in Aging, drawing a large and engaged audience to hear about research in brain health and resilience in...
COSMIC Peer Mentoring Program for Early Career Researchers! We are thrilled to announce that applications for the COSMIC Peer Mentoring Program are now open! This exciting initiative is coordinated by the COSMIC Teaching and Education Committee and is designed...
Congratulations to Dr. Caterina Rosano, Keynote Speaker at the 2026 Suzanne Labarge Lecture in Aging! We are thrilled to celebrate Dr. Caterina Rosano, who was selected as the keynote speaker for this year's Suzanne Labarge Lecture in Aging: Connecting Longevity with...
Exciting news! We are thrilled to share that a manuscript by our Population Neuroscience trainee Yixiao Song has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences! "A Bayesian Network Analysis of Gait Speed Change Upon Transition to Uneven...
