CRARY LAB
Lyucheng Zou
Gabe Marx, MD
Neurology resident
Dr. John F. Crary, MD-PhD
Principal Investigator
Frankie Mendez
Associate Researcher
Justin Kauffman
Data Science Analyst
Jamie Walker, MD, PhD
Neuropathologist
Victoria Flores Almazan
Associate Researcher
NEUROPATHOLOGY BRAIN BANK & RESEARCH CORE
Ruchika Verma, PhD
Post-doctoral
Madhavi Jere
MD-PhD Student
Brandon Veremis
Assistant Professor
Jannes Jegminat, PhD
Post-doctoral
Anya McGoldrick
Associate Researcher
Mike Karlovich
Data Engineer
Daniel KoenigsbergPsych Resident
Ruth H Walker, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Kevin Clare, MD-PhD
Neuropathology Fellow
Stephanie McQuillan
Clinical Manager
Gabriele Campanella
Assistant Professor
Ann McKee, MD, PhD
Neurologist
COLLABORATORS
Kristen Whitney, PhD
Instructor
Soong Ho Kim, PhD
Senior Scientist
OUR TEAM
Emma Woodoff-Leith, MA
Dr. John Crary's journey from curious undergraduate fascinated by the parallels between brains and computers to internationally recognized neuropathologist began with a transformative moment: peering into a microscope at Columbia University and discovering 19 forgotten cases that would rewrite our understanding of Alzheimer's disease. What started as personal tragedy—watching his father-in-law succumb to dementia—evolved into scientific revolution when he realized that some patients developed dementia without the amyloid plaques supposedly required for Alzheimer's disease. This paradigm-shifting discovery led him to pioneer the concept of primary age-related tauopathy (PART), challenging decades of established dogma and proving that the earliest stages of brain disease held keys to prevention that everyone else had overlooked. Today, as both an experimental neurobiologist and board-certified neuropathologist, Dr. Crary leads an network of researchers who have defined numerous diagnostic categories for brain diseases, while pioneering computer vision and deep machine learning to modernize how we read the stories written in diseased brain tissue. His laboratory is a beacon for the next generation of neuropathologists, driven by the belief that every donated brain contains answers that could spare countless families from the heartbreak he witnessed firsthand, and that the greatest discoveries often come from the cases everyone else has forgotten.
Shrishtee Kandoi Data Engineer
Marcos Schaan-Profes, PhD
ALUMNI
Lily Yu-chia Chiu - Associate Researcher
Grace Selecky - Medical Student, New York Medical College
Robina Afzal - Medical Student, SUNY Downstate
Kourtni Lind-Watson - Medical Student, University of Minnesota
Quazi Hossain - Medical Student, NYITCOM
Adam Goldstein, MD - Pathology Resident, Mount Sinai West (New York)
Ahmed Ayad, MD - Pathology Resident
Margaret Krassner - MD-PhD Student, Albert Einstein COM (New York)
Alessandra Cervera - Medical Student, SUNY Downstate (New York)
Kat Slagell - Medical Student, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (New Mexico)
Dalilah Quintana Mora - Masters Student, Columbia University (New York)
Sean Thomas Delica - Research Associate, Strand Research (Boston)
Bergan Babrowicz - PhD student, Weill Cornell (New York)
Ismael Santa-Maria, PhD - Assistant Professor, Miguel Hernandez University (Spain)
Bidisha Roy, PhD - Research Associate, Rutgers University (New Jersey)
Marco Hefti, MD - Assistant Professor, University of Iowa (Iowa)
Maxim Signaevsky, MD, PhD - Instructor, J. James Peters VA Hospital (New York)
Kevin Strang, PhD - Senior Associate in Biotechnology Equity Research, Jeffries (New York)
Esma Karlovich, MD - Anatomic Pathology/Neuropathology Resident, Columbia University (New York)
Amber Tetlow, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University (New York)
Kofi Vordzorgbe - MD/PhD Student, Emory University (Georgia)
Natalia Han - Project Manager, HEOR
Cheick Sissoko - Research Assistant, New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University (New York)
Megan Iida - Resident, University of California (San Francisco)
Alicia Casella, MD - Ophthalmology Resident, Tufts Medical Center (Medford, MA)
Hadley Walsh - Medical Student, Wake Forest University (North Carolina)
Andrew McKenzie, MD, PhD - Scientist, Apex Neuroscience (Oregon)
Diana Dangoor - Medical Student, University of Illinois, Chicago (Illinois)
Ricky Ditzel - Medical Student, Rush University (Illinois)
Thomas Christie - Medical Student, SUNY Downstate (New York)
Jason Curtis
Elena Baldwin, MD - Medical Student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Xanthe Gallate, MD - Medical Student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tamjeed Sikder, Clinical Research Coordinator III at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jesse Laffey, DPM Candidate, New York College of Pediatric Medicine
Lia Farrell - Center for the Study of Social Difference
Nabil Tabish, MD - Hematopathologist, University of Colorado, Aurora
Aaron Bell, PhD - Staff Scientist Bio Electron Microscopy, NC State
Nelson Humala, Lab Manager, Gabriele Bartoli Brain Tumor Lab
Michael Andrew Bagnell
Isabella Levy - Medical Student at California Health Sciences University
Alex Von Riesemann - Consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners
Erica Lee
Maria Alaniz, PhD
Jessica McGlinchy - Founder at Method Spirits
Ryan Cohen - Software Development Engineer at Adobe
Ryan Lubarsky - MD Candidate at New York Medical College
Thomas Richards - Software Engineer at Powin Energy
Tony Chung - Medical Student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Zahin Quayyum - Community Program Coordinator, Rockefeller University
Gabriella Martinez - MD Candidate at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine
Yiling Wang - Resident, Zucker Hillside Hospital
Amelia Chen - M.D. Candidate at University of Queensland
Etty Cortes, MD - Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai (New York)
Erika Straite - Investment Manager, Deutsche Bank
Anna Du - Clinical Research Coordinator/ Imaging Research Technician, MGH
Hannah Monack - Union College
Omolara Adeyemi - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jarius Garner - MD2 at Morehouse School of Medicine
Breiuana White - Master of Biomedical Science-Rutgers
Brianna Gordon - Medical Student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hilledna Gregoire - Research Assistant at Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc
Kevin Si - High school intern
Richard "Dash" Dolgins - High school intern
Katleen Lozada, MD - Medical Student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Malcolm Furman - Undergraduate, Brown University
Meredith Jenkins - Undergraduate, Brown University
Yasir Qureshi, MD
Mina Shah - MD Candidate, University of Rochester, New York
Heather Wargnier - Group Account Director at SPCSHP
Sophie Nader - MD Candidate, Tufts University School of Medicine
Samin Hassan Associate researcher
Tim Richardson, DO, PhD
Neuropathologist
Claudia De Sanctis, PhD
Senior Scientist
Valeriy Borukhov, AS Histotechnologist