Catherine C Kaczorowski, BA, PhD
Elinor Levine Professor of Dementia Research
Professor of Neurology
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Catherine C Kaczorowski, BA, PhD
Professor
  • Qualifications
  • Center Memberships
  • Research Overview
  • Recent Publications
  • Qualifications
    • Fellowship
      Medical College of Wisconsin, Neuroproteomics of Alzheimer's, Kern Innovation Fellow, 2012
    • Fellowship
      University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Psychology, Cognitive Aging, 2009
    • PhD
      Northwestern University - Institue for Neuroscience, Evanston, IL, 2006
    • BA
      University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2000
    • N/A
      Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO, 1997
    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
    • Center Member
      Precision Health Initiative
    Research Overview

    My laboratory pioneers techniques to identify and validate genetic and cellular mechanisms that promote resilience to cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, and other age-related dementias. By combining mouse and human systems; genomic, anatomic, and behavioral approaches; and integrative analyses across multiple scales, data types, environmental factors, and species, we are accelerating discovery of the precise genetic mechanisms of cognitive resilience that could yield the next generation of targets and therapeutic strategies for promoting brain health. We are now uniquely poised to propel the field of personalized medicine forward using our genetically diverse, yet reproducible models of human neurodegenerative dementias, having already contributed conceptual and technical advances that revolutionized our ability to study complex diseases, specifically human AD dementia.

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Preprint
      Genetic background influences the 5XFAD Alzheimer's disease mouse model brain proteome.
      Hurst CD, Dunn AR, Dammer EB, Duong DM, Seyfried NT, Kaczorowski CC, Johnson ECB. 2023 Jun 13; DOI:10.1101/2023.06.12.544646
      PMID: 37398142
    • Journal Article
      Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Organ-Specific Effects of 2-Deoxyglucose Treatment in Healthy Mice.
      Wells AE, Wilson JJ, Sears JD, Wei J, Heuer S, Pandey R, Costa MW, Kaczorowski CC, Roopenian DC, Chang C-H, Carter GW. bioRxiv, 2023 May 12; DOI:10.1101/2023.04.24.537717
      PMID: 37162857
    • Journal Article
      Merged magnetic resonance and light sheet microscopy of the whole mouse brain.
      Johnson GA, Tian Y, Ashbrook DG, Cofer GP, Cook JJ, Gee JC, Hall A, Hornburg K, Kaczorowski CC, Qi Y, Yeh F-C, Wang N, White LE, Williams RW. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Apr 25; 120 (17): e2218617120 DOI:10.1073/pnas.2218617120
      PMID: 37068254
    • Presentation
      Systems Genetics Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease-Related Sleep Loss and the Transition to Dementia
      Kaczorowski C. 2023 Mar 30;
    • Presentation
      Cognitive resilience in AD: Modeling cell-cell interactions between hippocampal excitatory neurons microglia subtypes
      Kaczorowski C. 2023 Mar 24;
    • Journal Article
      High sucrose consumption decouples intrinsic and synaptic excitability of AgRP neurons without altering body weight.
      Korgan AC, Oliveira-Abreu K, Wei W, Martin SLA, Bridges ZJD, Leal-Cardoso JH, Kaczorowski CC, O'Connell KMS. Int J Obes (Lond), 2023 Mar; 47 (3): 224 - 235. DOI:10.1038/s41366-023-01265-w
      PMID: 36725979
    • Journal Article
      Detecting the effect of genetic diversity on brain composition in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model.
      Gurdon B, Yates SC, Csucs G, Groeneboom NE, Hadad N, Telpoukhovskaia M, Ouellette A, Ouellette T, O'Connell K, Singh S, Murdy T, Merchant E, Bjerke I, Kleven H, Schlegel U, Leergaard TB, Puchades MA, Bjaalie JG, Kaczorowski CC. bioRxiv, 2023 Feb 28; DOI:10.1101/2023.02.27.530226
      PMID: 36909528
    • Presentation
      Deconstructing Alzheimer's disease complexity to identify resilience mechanisms
      Kaczorowski C. 2022 Nov 25;
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