Claudia L. Satizabal PhD, MSc

Claudia Satizabal is 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 she lead the Population Neuroscience core. She is also a Framingham Heart Study investigator and conduct research with the neurology core since 2013. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of lifestyle and genetic determinants influencing stroke, imaging markers of brain aging, cognitive decline, and dementia. Her 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. She is 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. She is 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.