Christopher Gaiteri, PhD

Christopher Gaiteri, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Rush University. His research integrates systems biology, genetics, and cognitive neuroscience to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related neurodegenerative conditions. His recent work includes proteomic profiling to identify biomarker panels for cerebral small-vessel disease (Nature Aging), multi-stage graph attention networks for interpretable Alzheimer’s classification from genome-wide data, and studies on tau seed propagation via individual-specific brain connectivity (Neuron). He also investigates structural variants linked to Alzheimer’s and paired neuroimaging-transcriptomics to reveal region-specific molecular correlates of brain structure.