... and many thanks to Sudha Seshadri, MD for getting much better photos of the presenters!

‘Deciphering rare non-coding lipid associations in over 267K individuals with whole genome sequencing’ Margaret-Sunitha Selvaraj ⁦Charge Tiger⁩ using metaSTAAR across TOPMed and UKBB

Many thanks to our second day's congress session speakers: Ana Navas Acien, Jacob Keaton, Murali Sagurupremraj, Sarah Urbut, Myriam Fornage, Vasan Ramachandran, Tamar Sofer, and Margaret Selvaraj. Exciting research to close the meeting!

Tamar Sofer discusses ‘Unraveling sex differences in health’ at CHARGE fall meeting 2023 ⁦Harvard Medical School⁩ ⁦BIDMC⁩ ⁦Charge Tiger⁩ ⁦UT Health San Antonio Research⁩

Shout out to 'The' Monica for winning very well deserved Tiger award for distinguished service at the CHARGE conference in San Antonio, TX! 🤠🐯🏆

Monica Goss Charge Tiger Sudha Seshadri, MD Claudia Satizabal Debora Melo van Lent

‘Cellular Phenotypes in triangulating putative drug targets for Alzheimer’s disease endophenotypes’ a creative approach to finding new druggable targets for Alzheimer’s disease! 👏👏to #Murali Sargurupremraj of ⁦UT Health San Antonio Research⁩ ⁦Charge Tiger⁩ 23

Prof. Myriam Fornage speaks on ‘Leveraging population diversity for genetic discoveries in brain aging’ fine mapping for cognitive aging traits at loci showing differential associations, minor allele counts ⁦Charge Tiger⁩ ⁦UTHealth Houston⁩

App for multi state modeling of dynamic lifetime risk of coronary artery dise as e using EHR in UK Biobank!! Brilliant work by Sara Urbut Charge Tiger

CHARGE fall 2023 day 3 begins! Important discussion on ‘Metallomics & Cardiovascular Disease: New Opportunities for Prevention and Intervention’ led by Prof. Ana Navas-Acien of ⁦Columbia University⁩…WHO estimates 31% of CVD could be prevented with removal of environmental pollutants

And it has begun! CHARGE San Antonio 2023 with the preconference on ‘Imaging Phenotypes in Large Population Cohorts’ with a broad and exciting overview by #Charlie_DeCarli on Brain MRI endophenotypes!

Orgainizing a group photo can be like herding tigers

Nimish Adhikari from ⁦Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine⁩ speaking on GWAS of subsequent stroke in nearly 45,000 persons from #MVP and #UKBB ⁦Veterans Health finds 2 genes⁩

Scenes from the always-exciting poster blitz!

'Epidemiologists eat from the garbage can' -- John Blangero takes us on a deep dive for our last invited talk of the day

Thanks to our dynamic invited and abstract speakers for making the first day's congress sessions a success!

Frauke Beyer from Université de Bordeaux describing how different ‘Spatial patterns of white matter hyper intensities relate to cardiovascular and genetic risk factors’ Charge Tiger UT Health San Antonio Research

Prof Cornelia van Duijn from Oxford University describes a proteomic age clock that works in UK and China and is a powerful predictor of mortality and several age related diseases!! ⁦University of Oxford⁩ ⁦Erasmus University⁩ ⁦Charge Tiger⁩ ⁦UT Health San Antonio Research⁩

Prof. Agustin Ruiz on ‘Leveraging Real-World Clinical Data in Dementia Research- the ACE Alzheimer Center Barcelona Experience’ citizen science, CSF and plasma biomarkers and genomics! Ace Alzheimer Center Barcelona UT Health San Antonio Research Charge Tiger

Prof Guillame Pare from McMaster speaking on ‘A multiomics approach to cardio metabolic disease prevention and prediction’ on HER2 in CKD in the #PURE study and other fascinating insights! ⁦McMaster University⁩ ⁦Charge Tiger⁩ ⁦UT Health San Antonio Research⁩ #Neurepiomics_2023

State of CHARGE_2023 154 attendees, about a third are first time attendees! ⁦Charge Tiger⁩