Jamie Ross  Name: Jaime M. Ross Nationality: United States Educational background: Bachelor of Science from St. Lawrence University; Major: Neuroscience with concentration in Chemistry; Minor: Fine Arts. Mentors: Barry J. Hoffer M.D., Ph.D. (NIH) and Lars Olson Ph.D. (KI) Area of study: How mtDNA mutations can lead to aging and age-related disorders/diseases of the CNS Current location: Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden Research interests: mitochondrial dysfunction, neuroenergetics, neurodegenerative diseases Contact information: Karolinska Institutet Department of Neuroscience Retzius väg 8 171 77 Stockholm Sweden National Institute on Drug Abuse Biomedical Research Center 251 Bayview Blvd Baltimore, MD 21224 USA rossja@nida.nih.gov or Jaime.Ross@ki.se +1 (518) 632-1100 (US online number) +46 8524.87051 (Sweden lab) Recent honors and awards (2006 – Present): NeurOnLine Champion: Neuroscience of Aging Community, Society for Neuroscience, 2011 – Present NIH Pre-Doctoral Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship, NIDA, 2006 - Present NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) recipient, 2010, 2011 Karolinska Institutet Travel Award, 2009, 2010, 2011 EU 6th Framework Program MiMage "Mitochondria in Ageing and Age-related Disease" Fellowship, 2009 Swiss Society for Neuroscience Fellowship, 2008 EU 6th Framework Program "PROUST – The temporal dimension in functional genomics," Fellowship, 2008 NIH Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellowship, NHLBI, 2005 - 2006 Links of interest: - LinkedIn Professional profile: http://se.linkedin.com/in/jaimemross - Article in NewScientist Magazine on PNAS publication: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827854.400-track-lactic-acid-to-discover-brain-age.html - Article in National Geographic Deutschland on PNAS publication (in German): http://www.nationalgeographic.de/aktuelles/fruehwarnsystem-fuer-das-gehirn Recent publications:
I grew up in southern Vermont and attended St. Lawrence University, graduating magna cum laude in 2003 with a major in neuroscience concentrating in chemistry and a minor in fine arts. I have been attracted to biomedical research ever since I was a small child, when I experienced my grandmother's difficulty in walking due to lumbar spinal stenosis. I recall being intrigued by neurophysiology even in those days, when I used to experiment with different therapies and track my grandmother¹s performance on locomotive tasks, hoping to cure her degenerative spine. Although I fully intended to become a neurosurgeon, I became very interested in 'learning and memory' circuitry as an undergraduate and studied the pharmacological effects of glial inhibition on the acquisition of new memories in the conscious rat. My experiences at St. Lawrence University opened my heart and mind to scientific discovery, especially to the exciting field of neuroscience. Nowadays, I am using my passion for scientific discovery to further our understanding of the aging process. I have focused my attention on how changes in metabolism may influence the onset of age-related changes and neurodegenerative diseases. Recently, my colleagues and I published findings that high brain lactate is a biomarker of the aging process, and that proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a noninvasive strategy for monitoring, and possibly even predicting, aging phenotypes. My hope is that one day we can track how our brains are aging --we could ask our physicians for a 'brain check-up'! I plan to continue my quest to understand the relationship between damage to mitochondria ¬- the organelle responsible for energy production in the cell ¬- and changes in brain metabolism during the aging process. For more information on my motivation for choosing the joint NIH-KI Graduate Partnerships Program, see: http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=38592&a=127851&l=en |
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