Professor
Department of Pathology
School of Medicine
Professor
Department of Neurology
School of Medicine
Co-Director
National Prion Diseases Pathology Surveillance Center
Research Information
Research Interests
- Neuropathology of Prion diseases
- Neuromuscular diseases
External Appointments
Title
Neuropathology Core Director
Organization/Publication
Cleveland Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Publications
- Zhang W, Orrú CD, Foutz A, et al. Large-scale validation of skin prion seeding activity as a biomarker for diagnosis of prion diseases. Acta Neuropathol. 2024;147(1):17. Published 2024 Jan 17. doi:10.1007/s00401-023-02661-2
- Wang P, Lynn A, Miskimen K, et al. Genome-wide association studies identify novel loci in rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement. Published online January 7, 2024. doi:10.1002/alz.13655
- Kerner C, Kotobelli K, Appleby BS, Cohen ML, Abboud H. Pathological findings in autoimmune encephalitis autopsy specimens from cases of suspected prion disease. J Neurol. 2024;271(1):446-456. doi:10.1007/s00415-023-12003-7
- Cracco L, Cali I, Cohen ML, et al. Efficient transmission of human prion diseases to a glycan-free prion protein-expressing host. Brain. Published online November 24, 2023. doi:10.1093/brain/awad399
- Hromadkova, L., Kim, C., Haldiman, T. et al. Evolving prion-like tau conformers differentially alter postsynaptic proteins in neurons inoculated with distinct isolates of Alzheimer’s disease tau. Cell Biosci 13, 174 (2023)
- Venkatraghavan, V, Pascuzzo, R, Bron, EE, et al. A discriminative event-based model for subtype diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease using brain MRI. Alzheimer's Dement. 2023; 19: 3261–3271.
- Kim C, Haldiman T, Kang SG, Hromadkova L, Han ZZ, Chen W, Lissemore F, Lerner A, de Silva R, Cohen ML, Westaway D, Safar JG. Distinct populations of highly potent TAU seed conformers in rapidly progressing Alzheimer's disease. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Jan 5;14(626)
- Liu H, Kim C, Haldiman T, Sigurdson CJ, Nyström S, Nilsson KPR, Cohen ML, Wisniewski T, Hammarström P, Safar JG. Distinct conformers of amyloid beta accumulate in the neocortex of patients with rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease. J Biol Chem. 2021 Nov;297(5):101267.
- Rhoads DD, Wrona A, Foutz A, Blevins J, Glisic K, Person M, Maddox RA, Belay ED, Schonberger LB, Tatsuoka C, Cohen ML, Appleby BS. Diagnosis of prion diseases by RT-QuIC results in improved surveillance. Neurology. 2020 Aug 25;95(8):e1017-e1026. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010086. Epub 2020 Jun 22. PMID: 32571851.
- Cali I, Puoti G, Smucny J, Curtiss PM, Cracco L, Kitamoto T, Occhipinti R, Cohen ML, Appleby BS, Gambetti P. Co-existence of PrPD types 1 and 2 in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of the VV subgroup: phenotypic and prion protein characteristics. Sci Rep. 2020 Jan 30;10(1):1503. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58446-0. PMID: 32001774; PMCID: PMC6992672.
Education
Doctor of Medicine
Cornell University Medical College
1983
Bachelor of Arts
Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences
Biochemistry
1979
Residencies, Internships and Fellowships
Fellowship in Neuropathology
University Hospitals of Cleveland
1990
Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Cornell University
1988
Intership in Internal Medicine
Cornell University
1984