Erin Hascup, PhD
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Affiliation(s):
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
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Areas of Interest:
Neurotransmitter regulation in Alzheimer's disease, early intervention in Alzheimer's disease, cellular senescence in aging and Alzheimer's disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, Normal and abnormal cognitive aging, Disease-related circadian disruption, Alzheimer's Disease;inflammation;neuron;glia cells
Biography & Research:
Erin R. Hascup, PhD is the Director of the Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and Treatment and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, a PhD in Neurobiology from the University of Kentucky, and postdoctoral training at the Karolinska Institute and McGill University. Dr. Hascup leads a team of researchers in an active neuroscience research laboratory within the Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease and successful aging. Her primary research interests include evaluation of the cognitive changes that occur across the continuum of aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and related disorders, and the underlying mechanisms associated with these changes. The long-term goal of Dr. Hascup's research is to determine disease stage-specific therapeutics that have the potential to improve patient outcome, with a special interest in early diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Hascup's Laboratory is currently funded by two grants from the National Institute on Aging (R01AG057767 and R01AG061937) and has previously been the been funded by grants from the Illinois Department of Public Health and the SIU School of Medicine Foundation. She has served as a reviewer at study section for the NIH Center for Scientific Review, the Department of Defense, Brain Canada/Azrieli Foundation, Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale and Foundation Alzheimer Grant, the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Illinois Department of Public Health. She is an ad hoc reviewer for several scientific journals, and is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 book chapters, and over 50 abstracts. Additionally, Dr. Hascup has been a speaker at several national and international conferences including the International Conference on Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Diseases, the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, the NIA's Senescence in Brain Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Workshop, and the Winter Conference on Brain Research.
