Laura Ekblad
Laura is a medical doctor with a specialist degree in both Geriatrics and Family Medicine. She started working at the Turku PET Centre in 2013 and obtained her PhD on “Insulin Resistance, Cognition and Brain Amyloid Accumulation” in 2018.
She continued her research both at the Turku PET Centre and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Alzheimer Centre, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In Amsterdam she studied the association between CSF proteomics and cortical thickness in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. She received the Title of Docent in Experimental Neurogeriatrics from the University of Turku in 2024.
Laura’s research interests include early risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and especially the association between insulin resistance and early cerebral changes of AD. She also runs a project on possible cardiac side effects of anti-dementia agents in elderly memory clinic patients. She is currently supervising four PhD students and divides her working hours between clinical work at the local Geriatric Memory Clinic and conducting research at the Turku PET Centre.
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5863-8088
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laura_Ekblad
Funding: Finnish Medical Foundation,Diabetes Research Foundation, Paulo Foundation, Emil Aaltonen Foundation, Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Juho Vainio Foundation
