Alexander Ehrenberg, PhD

Assistant Researcher
Fields of Interest

Alex is a biomedical scientist focused on neurological and psychiatric disease pathogenesis and therapeutic development. He received his BA and PhD degrees from UC Berkeley with additional research training at UC San Francisco's Memory and Aging Center under the joint mentorship of Dr. Lea Grinberg and Dr. Daniela Kaufer. Alex's training included specialization in neuropathology, epidemiology, comparative neurology, molecular genetics, and cell biology. During his PhD, Alex focused on pathways underlying the selective vulnerability of neuromodulatory subcortical structures to neurodegenerative diseases and stress disorders. Through his work establishing clinical research programs at UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute during graduate school, he became interested in gene and cell therapy applications to neurologic and psychiatric diseases.

Now, Alex is an Innovative Genomics Institute Translational Health Fellow jointly appointed at the UCSF Memory & Aging Center. He is jointly supervised by Dr. Bruce Miller and Dr. Jennifer Doudna. In this role, he continues to study the pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders with a focus on identifying and developing targets for cell and gene therapies.

www.ajehrenberg.com

Publications

A cerebrospinal fluid synaptic protein biomarker for prediction of cognitive resilience versus decline in Alzheimer's disease.

Oh HS, Urey DY, Karlsson L, Zhu Z, Shen Y, Farinas A, Timsina J, Duggan MR, Chen J, Guldner IH, Morshed N, Yang C, Western D, Ali M, Le Guen Y, Trelle A, Herukka SK, Rauramaa T, Hiltunen M, Lipponen A, Luikku AJ, Poston KL, Mormino E, Wagner AD, Wilson EN, Channappa D, Leinonen V, Stevens B, Ehrenberg AJ, Gottesman RF, Coresh J, Walker KA, Zetterberg H, Bennett DA, Franzmeier N, Hansson O, Cruchaga C, Wyss-Coray T

Spatial proteomic differences in chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Alzheimer's disease, and primary age-related tauopathy hippocampi.

Richardson TE, Orr ME, Orr TC, Rohde SK, Ehrenberg AJ, Thorn EL, Christie TD, Flores-Almazan V, Afzal R, De Sanctis C, Maldonado-Díaz C, Hiya S, Canbeldek L, Kulumani Mahadevan LS, Slocum C, Samanamud J, Clare K, Scibetta N, Yokoda RT, Koenigsberg D, Marx GA, Kauffman J, Goldstein A, Selmanovic E, Drummond E, Wisniewski T, White CL, Goate AM, Crary JF, Farrell K, Alosco ML, Mez J, McKee AC, Stein TD, Bieniek KF, Kautz TF, Daoud EV, Walker JM

Priorities for research on neuromodulatory subcortical systems in Alzheimer's disease: Position paper from the NSS PIA of ISTAART.

Ehrenberg AJ, Kelberman MA, Liu KY, Dahl MJ, Weinshenker D, Falgàs N, Dutt S, Mather M, Ludwig M, Betts MJ, Winer JR, Teipel S, Weigand AJ, Eschenko O, Hämmerer D, Leiman M, Counts SE, Shine JM, Robertson IH, Levey AI, Lancini E, Son G, Schneider C, Egroo MV, Liguori C, Wang Q, Vazey EM, Rodriguez-Porcel F, Haag L, Bondi MW, Vanneste S, Freeze WM, Yi YJ, Maldinov M, Gatchel J, Satpati A, Babiloni C, Kremen WS, Howard R, Jacobs HIL, Grinberg LT

Launching a saliva-based SARS-CoV-2 surveillance testing program on a university campus.

Ehrenberg AJ, Moehle EA, Brook CE, Doudna Cate AH, Witkowsky LB, Sachdeva R, Hirsh A, Barry K, Hamilton JR, Lin-Shiao E, McDevitt S, Valentin-Alvarado L, Letourneau KN, Hunter L, Keller A, Pestal K, Frankino PA, Murley A, Nandakumar D, Stahl EC, Tsuchida CA, Gildea HK, Murdock AG, Hochstrasser ML, O'Brien E, Ciling A, Tsitsiklis A, Worden K, Dugast-Darzacq C, Hays SG, Barber CC, McGarrigle R, Lam EK, Ensminger DC, Bardet L, Sherry C, Harte A, Nicolette G, Giannikopoulos P, Hockemeyer D, Petersen M, Urnov FD, Ringeisen BR, Boots M, Doudna JA, IGI SARS-CoV-2 Testing Consortium

Locus coeruleus imaging as a biomarker for noradrenergic dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases.

Betts MJ, Kirilina E, Otaduy MCG, Ivanov D, Acosta-Cabronero J, Callaghan MF, Lambert C, Cardenas-Blanco A, Pine K, Passamonti L, Loane C, Keuken MC, Trujillo P, Lüsebrink F, Mattern H, Liu KY, Priovoulos N, Fliessbach K, Dahl MJ, Maaß A, Madelung CF, Meder D, Ehrenberg AJ, Speck O, Weiskopf N, Dolan R, Inglis B, Tosun D, Morawski M, Zucca FA, Siebner HR, Mather M, Uludag K, Heinsen H, Poser BA, Howard R, Zecca L, Rowe JB, Grinberg LT, Jacobs HIL, Düzel E, Hämmerer D

Locus coeruleus volume and cell population changes during Alzheimer's disease progression: A stereological study in human postmortem brains with potential implication for early-stage biomarker discovery.

Theofilas P, Ehrenberg AJ, Dunlop S, Di Lorenzo Alho AT, Nguy A, Leite REP, Rodriguez RD, Mejia MB, Suemoto CK, Ferretti-Rebustini REL, Polichiso L, Nascimento CF, Seeley WW, Nitrini R, Pasqualucci CA, Jacob Filho W, Rueb U, Neuhaus J, Heinsen H, Grinberg LT