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Sukriti Nag, MD, PhD

Professor
Department of Pathology, RUSH Medical College
Neuropathologist, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
Education

MD, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, India

Research Areas

Research interests include the blood-brain barrier, cerebrovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease).

Contact Info:

1653 W. Congress Pkwy.
570 Jelke
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 942-2269
Sukriti_Nag@rush.edu
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Biography

Sukriti Nag is a Board-certified neuropathologist and professor of pathology (neuropathology) at the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center (RADC). She trained in anatomic pathology at Rhode Island Hospital (Brown University) Providence, R.I., and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and trained in neuropathology at Queen's University where she also obtained MSc and PhD degrees in the field of experimental neuropathology. Her grant-funded research initially at Queen’s University and later at the University of Toronto was in the area of the biology of cerebral endothelium and the reactivity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in health and disease with emphasis on the pathogenesis of BBB breakdown in CNS disorders. She has received several awards for her work. She started at the RADC in July of 2010. In addition to collaborative research, she provided the neuropathology assessment for 1400 brains received in 3 longitudinal studies of aging - the Rush Religious Orders Study, the Memory and Aging Project and the Minority Aging Research Project. Currently, she provides neuropathology support for the study “African Ancestry and the Genomic Architecture of AD and Other Common Neurodegenerative Disease Neuropathologies”. Her research interests are neurodegenerative diseases, cerebrovascular diseases and the neurovascular unit (Blood-Brain Barrier).

Honors and Activities
  • Best oral presentation (with Dr. Jeff Donovan), Toronto Western Research Institute- Research Day, June 2007
  • Mary Tom Award (with Dr. Lili-Naz Hazrati), Canadian Association of Neuropathologists, St John’s, NL, 2005
  • Recognition of teaching excellence, 3rd Annual Pathology Update, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, November 2000
  • Mary Tom Award (with Dr. Miriam Kim), Canadian Association of Neuropathologists, 1996
  • Honourable mention for the Mary Tom Award (with Dr. Patrick Shannon), Canadian Association of Neuropathologists, 1995 
  • Outstanding Service Award, Kingston Rideau Trail Club, 1992
  • Named Researcher of the Month, Kingston branch of the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 1991
  • Honourable mention for the Moore Award (best paper in clinicopathologic correlation), American Association of Neuropathologists, 1992 
  • Research Scholarship, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario, 1978-87
  • Honourable mention for Weil Award in Investigative Neuropathology, American Association of Neuropathologists, 1986
  • First prize for best poster at Fifthth International Symposium on Brain Edema, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1982
  • Wild Leitz Junior Scientific Award, Canadian Association of Pathologists, Quebec City, 1979
  • Fellowship, Medical Research Council of Canada, 1977
  • Weil Award for best paper in Investigative Neuropathology, American Association of Neuropathologists, San Francisco, 1976
  • Merit Scholarship, GSVM Medical College, 1966-68
  • Gold Medal in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, GSVM Medical College, 1967
  • Book Prize for second highest position in final MBBS exam, GSVM Medical College, 1967
  • Gold Medal in Pathology and Bacteriology, GSVM Medical College, 1966
Publications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/sukriti.nag.1/bibliography/48934695/public/?sort=date&direction=descending

Grants

Collaboration in the following research grants:

P30AG010161 (Bennett) 9/30/91-6/30/16
National Institute on Aging
Rush Alzheimer's Disease Core Center
The major goals of this Core Center Grant are to provide core infrastructure support for research regarding aging and AD.

R01AG017917 (Bennett) 9/30/01-3/31/19
National Institute on Aging
Epidemiologic Study of Neural Reserve and Neurobiology of Aging
The major goal of the continuation of MAP is to discover additional proteins associated with the slope of cognitive decline, after accounting for the effects of common pathologies.

R01NS078009 (Buchman) 9/15/12-6/30/17
NINDS
The Clinical Profile of Parkinson's Disease (PD) Pathology
The overall goal is to characterize the clinical profile of PD pathology in older persons without a diagnosis of PD.

R01AG043379 (Buchman) 9/30/12-5/31/17
NIA
Brain and Spinal Cord Microvascular Pathology in Late-Life Motor Impairment
The overall goal is to test the hypothesis that specific microvascular pathologies in the brain and spinal cord contribute to late-life motor impairment.

R01NS082416 (Hall) 3/1/13-2/28/17
NINDS
Adult Neurological Phenotypes of Fragile X Gray Zone Expansion
This project will focus on determining prevalence rates of gray zone FMR1 gene expansion in previously collected cases and characterization of the clinical and pathological phenotypes of these individuals

R01AG042210 (Schneider) 7/1/12-3/31/17
NIA
Epidemiologic study of TDP-43 pathology in aging and dementia
The major goal of the grant is to test the hypothesis that TDP-43 pathology in the aging brain is a separate disease that increases the odds of dementia and has a distinct cognitive phenotype, and specific genetic risk factors, separate from AD and other pathologies.