UCSF’s innovative, collaborative approach to patient care, research and education spans disciplines across the life sciences, making it a world leader in scientific discovery and its translation to improving health.

Liara Rizzi, PhD, MSc

Postdoctoral Scholar

Publications:

Exploring the significance of caspase-cleaved tau in tauopathies and as a complementary pathology to phospho-tau in Alzheimer's disease: implications for biomarker development and therapeutic targeting.

Acta neuropathologica communications

Rizzi L, Grinberg LT

Functional Connectome Analysis in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Comparing Alzheimer's Disease Continuum and Suspected Non-Alzheimer Pathology.

Brain connectivity

Brandes Lourenço R, Machado de Campos B, Rizzi L, Sakzenian de Souza M, Forlenza OV, Giroud Joaquim H, Leme Talib L, Cendes F, Figueredo Balthazar ML

CSF Aβ1-42, but not p-Tau181, Predicted Progression from Amnestic MCI to Alzheimer's Disease Dementia.

Neuromolecular medicine

Rizzi L, Missiaggia L, Roriz-Cruz M

CSF Aβ1-42, but not p-Tau181, differentiates aMCI from SCI.

Brain research

Rizzi L, Maria Portal M, Batista CEA, Missiaggia L, Roriz-Cruz M

Mechanisms of brain aging regulation by insulin: implications for neurodegeneration in late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

ISRN neurology

Schuh AF, Rieder CM, Rizzi L, Chaves M, Roriz-Cruz M