Monthly Archives: December 2025

Predictive Alzheimer’s Risk

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Cristian Badea

Congratulations to QIAL’s Dr. Alexandra Badea and Dr. Trong-Kha Truong on receiving the 2025 Medical Physics Fall Seed Grant Award for their project, “Predictive Modeling of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Using Explainable AI and High-Resolution MRI.”

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Exercise Protects the Aging Heart in High-Fat Diet APOE Mice

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Cristian Badea

Using photon-counting CT and deep learning, we show that voluntary exercise significantly mitigates high-fat diet–induced cardiac dysfunction in adult APOE-targeted mice, with the strongest benefits observed in APOE4 and humanized innate immune (HN) backgrounds. Exercise mitigates high-fat diet–induced cardiac dysfunction … Continue reading →

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