Pascoal Lab
@LabPascoal
Lab based at University of Pittsburgh interested in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in neurodegeneration | PI: @TharickAPascoal
Heading to #AAIC2025? We’re excited to share 9 oral presentations and 16 posters at this year’s conference! Come find us - we’d love to connect, discuss, and explore opportunities for collaboration.👇

New paper alert🚨 Our new study led by Dr @FrancieliRohden @NatureComms showed glial reactivity correlates with synaptic dysfunction in aging and AD, revealing how astrocyte and microglial activation influence synaptic degeneration. Check it now: nature.com/articles/s4146…

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🏆 Big congrats to Dr. @dtleffa for winning the Joseph Biederman Award for Best Oral Presentation at the 10th World Congress on ADHD! 🎉 Honored among the Early Career Scientist Awardees for his impactful research on ADHD genetic risk and dementia in older adults.
Exciting news! 🎉 @TommyKakari will be speaking at this ceremony. Such an incredible honor, and we couldn’t be prouder. 🙌 Check out the details below! #Alzheimers #Research #Science psychiatry.pitt.edu/events/researc…
🏆 Big congrats to Dr. @dtleffa for winning the Joseph Biederman Award for Best Oral Presentation at the 10th World Congress on ADHD! 🎉 Honored among the Early Career Scientist Awardees for his impactful research on ADHD genetic risk and dementia in older adults.
🎉So proud of Dr. Saha for receiving a grant from the @alzassociation! Her innovative project will explore the early role of activated astrocytes in Alzheimer’s Disease progression specifically in individuals who do not yet show detectable amyloid plaques.
🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Soares @Pascoallab for winning Best Poster and Favorite Poster (Peer Choice) at the Postdoctoral Research Symposium @Pitt! 🏆👏 Your outstanding work is being recognized on all fronts—well deserved!

🎉Exciting news! We’re proud to have 2 of our papers ranked among the top 10% most-viewed in 2023 in @alzdemjournals @alzassociation 🔗Plasma p-tau231 & p-tau217: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al… 🔗BBB integrity & use of plasma Aβ: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…
Thanks to the dedicated scientists who are working to #ENDALZ, we’ve made more progress than ever before in the fight to end Alzheimer’s. On #CelebrateScientistsDay, join us in honoring their brilliant work! ⚗️🥼🔬 @LabPascoal
It was a tremendous honor to host the first AAIC Neuroscience Next Hub held in Pennsylvania at the University of Pittsburgh on Monday, as part of the 2025 edition of this global conference! We are immensely grateful to our all attendees, both in person and online, who…



