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2025

Sep 2025. Joy Fu earned her Ph.D. in Medical Informatics, UCLA
Sep 2025: Dr. Chang is site PI on a clinical trial that start "A Study to Determine if BHV-8000 is Effective, Safe and Tolerable as a Treatment for Adults Living With Early Parkinson's Disease"
Sep 2025: Dr. Chang is a panelist at the Alzheimer's Association “RESEARCH ADVANCES. The Latest Breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s & Dementia”
July 2025: Samantha Shah presents poster at AAIC 2025
July 2025: Joy Fu and Dr. Chang's paper Identifying common disease trajectories of Alzheimer's disease with electronic health records published in EBioMedicine with media coverage
May 2025: Joy Fu and Dr. Chang's paper Identifying common disease trajectories of progressive supranuclear palsy with electronic health records published in Mov Disord Clin Pract.
Feb 2025: Dr. Chang present machine learning research at the California Department of Public Health, Alzheimer’s Disease Program (ADP) Research Symposium

Dec 2024: Chloe Sy Perez selected for oral presentation at 2024 Turken Research Award and Symposium
Aug 2024: Joy Fu, Leopodo Valient-Banuet, Satpal Wadhwa, and Dr. Chang's paper Improving genetic risk modeling of dementia from real-world data in underrepresented populations is published in Commun Biol. Nature Publishing Group; 2024 Aug 25;7(1):1–12.
Aug 2024: Dr. Chang is co-first author on Whole-genome sequencing analysis reveals new susceptibility loci and structural variants associated with progressive supranuclear palsy in Mol Neurodegener. 2024 Aug 16;19(1):61. PMCID: PMC11330058
July 2024: Joy Fu and Samantha Shah present posters at AAIC 2024
July 2024: Dr. Chang presents at the UCLA Computational Genomics Summer Institute "Modeling Alzheimer’s disease risk in real world data”

Aug 2023: Dr. Chang is co-first author on The contributions of rare inherited and polygenic risk to ASD in multiplex families in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; 2023 Aug;120(31):e2215632120. PMID: 37506195
Aug 2023: Dr. Chang is running a clinical trial in essential tremor (SAGE-324)
July 2023: Dr. Chang receives the Augustus S. Rose Chair in Neurology
July 2023: Thai Tran joins the lab as PhD student in Medical Informatics
Feb 2023: Our paper "Defining the distance between diseases using SNOMED CT embeddings" is published in J. of Biomedical Informatics Vol. 139, March, 2023.

Nov 2022: Ariadna Martinez joins the lab as a Genetic Counselor
Oct 2022: Satpal Wadhwa joins the lab as a Programmer Analyst IV
Oct 2022: Leopoldo Valiente Banuet joins the lab as a Programmer Analyst III
Sep 2022: Dr. Chang is quoted for the Northwest Asian weekly article Cultural neglect makes AAPI dementia harder
Aug 2022: Dr. Tim Chang is named the CADC Director at UCLA
Aug 2022: Joy Fu passes her PhD oral qualifying exam in Medical Informatics
Jun 2022: Dr. Chang and his team are awarded a grant from the California Department of Public Health. The grant is titled: "Assessment of Dementia Screening Toolkit for Primary Care in Diverse Populations"
Jun 2022: Dr. Chang presents dementia information at the Eary Memory Loss Conference by Alzheimer's Los Angeles
May 2022: Dr. Chang discusses the benefits of the Dementia Screening Toolkit he created with UCLA Health
Mar 2022: Joy Fu and Dr. Chang's paper evaluating Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in a real-world electronic health record (EHR) setting is published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Jan 2022: Collaboration with Drs. Gan, Tracy, Madero-Pérez published in Cell

Oct 2021: Vishakha Patil joins the lab as a bioinformatician
Sep 2021: Sam Shah joins the lab as a project manager
June 2021: International COVID GWAS published
Feb 2021: Our paper investigating COVID-19 risk factors in Hispanics/Latinx using Electronic Health Records is published in iScience
Feb 2021: Urvashi Kumar joins the lab as a bioinformatician