Christine Lee
Biography
Christine is interested in studying community-level factors that affect brain and cognitive health in aging, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. Her thesis work uses spatiotemporal air pollution modeling, metrics of community disadvantage, memory assessments, structural MRI, and quantitative susceptibility mapping to look at air pollution exposure as a risk factor in brain and cognitive aging.
Other Information
Awards and Honors:
IOG Graduate Fellow, 2024 - Present, IOG Pre-Doctoral Training Program, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Graduate Professional Scholarship, 2024 - 2025, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Sallie P. Asche Travel Assistance Award, 2025 Dallas Aging and Cognition Conference (DACC), February 2025, Dallas, TX
Trainee Travel Award, February 2025, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Graduate Student Professional Travel Award, February 2025, Graduate School, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Thomas C. Rumble Competitive University Graduate Fellowship, 2023 - 2024, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Research Key Collaborators
Advisors
Dr. Ana Daugherty
Advisory/Dissertation Committee
Dr. Ana Daugherty, Dr. Jessica Damoiseaux, Dr. Hilary Marusak, & Dr. Yaoxian Huang