The main objective of Dr. Ramirez’s laboratory is the identification of the genetic and epigenetic architecture that influences the disease processes underlying cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. A key focus of his research is identifying the molecular mechanisms at the intersection of ageing and Alzheimer’s disease that drive cognitive decline. His group combines (epi)genomics and proteomics to study cellular senescence, a key mechanism that triggers chronic inflammation through the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP).
Recent publications
APOE-stratified genome-wide association analyses provide insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimers's disease.
Nature genetics
Authors:
Jesper Qvist Thomassen, Hampton Leonard, Brittany Ulms, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Sami Heikkinen, Pablo Garcia-González, Atahualapa Castillo-Morales, Masataka Kikuchi, Jungsoo Gim, Han Cao, Fahri Küçükali, Najaf Amin, Dabin Yoon, Itziar de Rojas, Pilar Alvarez Jerez, Victoria Alvarez, Beatrice Arosio, Céline Bellenguez, Sverre Bergh, Kimberley Billingsley, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Merce Boada, Barbara Borroni, Paola Bossù, María J Bullido, Antonio Daniele, Ángel Carracedo, Alexandre de Mendonça, Mark Cookson, Jürgen Deckert, Martin Dichgans, Srdjan Djurovic, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Carole Dufouil, Emrah Düzel, Valentina Escott-Price, Tormod Fladby, Laura Fratiglioni, Amy K Y Fu, Daniela Galimberti, Jose Maria García-Alberca, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Guillermo Garcia-Ribas, Caroline Graff, Timo Grimmer, Edna Grünblatt, Olivier Hanon, Lucrezia Hausner, Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach, Jakub Hort, Frank Jessen, Kendall Jensen, Caroline Jonson, Yoontae Kim, Nicole Kuznetsov, Ville Leinonen, Anssi Lipponen, Jiao Luo, Mary Makarious, Henna Martiskainen, Carlo Masullo, Patrizia Mecocci, Shima Mehrabian, Pablo Mir, Akinori Miyashita, Susanne Moebus, Kin Y Mok, Laura Molina Porcel, Fermin Moreno, Benedetta Nacmias, Lucilla Parnetti, Pau Pastor, Jordi Pérez-Tur, Oliver Peters, Yolande A L Pijnenburg, Gerard Piñol-Ripoll, Julius Popp, Innocenzo Rainero, Luis M Real, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Eloy Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Arvid Rongve, Giacomina Rossi, Jose Luis Royo, Dan Rujescu, Ingvild Saltvedt, María Eugenia Sáez, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Florentino Sanchez-Garcia, Nicolai Sandau, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Katja Scheffler, Norbert Scherbaum, Anja Schneider, Geir Selbæk, Davide Seripa, Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Marco Spallazzi, Alessio Squassina, Eystein Stordal, Niccoló Tesi, Lucio Tremolizzo, Kumar P Tripathi, Wiesje M van der Flier, Julie Williams, Jens Wiltfang, Dag Aarsland, Andrew B Singleton, Philippe Amouyel, Stéphanie Debette, Magda Tsolaki, Gael Nicolas, Sven van der Lee, Henne Holstege, Maria Victoria Fernandez, Patrick Gavin Kehoe, Kristel Sleegers, Martin Ingelsson, Roberta Ghidoni, Ole A Andreassen, Peter A Holmans, Pascual Sánchez-Juan, Rebecca Sims, Nancy Y Ip, Kun Ho Lee, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Alfredo Ramirez, Agustin Ruiz, Mikko Hiltunen, Jean-Charles Lambert, Cornelia van Duijn, Mike Nalls, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt
Joint trajectories of brain atrophy, white matter hyperintensities and cognition quantify brain maintenance.
Nature communications
Authors:
Inga Menze, Jose Bernal, Rogier A Kievit, Kumar Parijat Tripathi, Timo Kaleck, Renat Yakupov, Slawek Altenstein, Claudia Bartels, Katharina Buerger, Michaela Butryn, Peter Dechent, Michael Ewers, Klaus Fliessbach, Ingo Frommann, Maria Gemenetzi, Wenzel Glanz, Daria Gref, Julian Hellmann-Regen, Stefan Hetzer, Enise I Incesoy, Daniel Janowitz, Ingo Kiliman, Luca Kleineidam, Marie Theres Kronmüller, Christoph Laske, Debora Melo van Lent, Falk Lüsebrink, Robert Perneczky, Oliver Peters, Lukas Preis, Josef Priller, Boris-Stephan Rauchmann, Ayda Rostamzadeh, Sandra Roeske, Klaus Scheffler, Björn-Hendrik Schott, Anja Schneider, Sebastian Sodenkamp, Annika Spottke, Eike Jakob Spruth, Melina Stark, Stefan Teipel, Michael Wagner, Jens Wiltfang, Frank Jessen, Alfredo Ramirez, Stefanie Schreiber, Emrah Düzel, Gabriel Ziegler
Diagnostic Images for Mild Cognitive Impairment Are Sensitive to Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers and Reveal Abnormal Scene Processing.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Authors:
Yuetong Bai, Oliver Peters, Silka Dawn Freiesleben, Friederike Fenski, Josef Priller, Eike Jakob Spruth, Anja Schneider, Klaus Fliessbach, Jens Wiltfang, Claudia Bartels, Ayda Rostamzadeh, Wenzel Glanz, Stefan Teipel, Ingo Kilimann, Christoph Laske, Matthias H Munk, Annika Spottke, Nina Roy-Kluth, Frederic Brosseron, Michael Wagner, Ingo Frommann, Falk Lüsebrink, Alfredo Ramirez, Peter Dechent, Stefan Hetzer, Klaus Scheffler, Renat Yakupov, Frank Jessen, Emrah Düzel, Wilma A Bainbridge
