Yuchen (Alana) Cheng

Program: Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Current advisor: Carlos Cruchaga, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Edinburgh, 2022

Enrollment year: 2024

Research summary

Graduate publications
Xu Y, Denkinger MN, Liu M, Gong K, Chen Y, Western D, Timsina J, Cheng Y, Xie Y, Mu R, Budde J, Beach TG, Serrano GE, Reiman EM, Singh A, Alfradique-Dunham I, Benzinger TLS, Schindler SE, Morris JC, Holtzman DM, Perlumtter JS, Snider BJ, Campbell MC, Kotzbauer PT, Ashton NJ, Cruchaga C. 2026 GPND-AI NULISA: A 15-Protein AI classifier for diagnosis and co-pathology profiling across neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimers Dement, 22(5):e71420. PMCID: PMC13124650