Overlooked.
Disregarded.
Biologically and culturally predisposed.

Backed by volumes of scientific research and her experience as a medical doctor, Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha set out on a journey to improve the way brain diseases are diagnosed, drugs are developed, and personalized medicine does its job.

To save our brains from degenerating. 

You’ll hear about the world of Alzheimer’s disease, Alzheimer symptoms, Alzheimer treatment and diagnosis. How scary it looks today and what hopes are there in the future.

You’ll also hear about 

• the role of sex and gender in clinical trials
• the impact of hormonal cycle on drug efficacy
• Bruce Willis and dementia he suffers from
• digital biomarkers that may change it all 
• the future of brain healthcare.

Trigger warning: this interview contains content about suicide.

Dr. Antonella Santuccione Chadha is a medical doctor passionately speaking about clinical pathology, neuroscience, and psychiatric disorders. She is a pro bono CEO of Women’s Brain Project, currently transforming into a foundation to promote research in Sex and Gender Precision Medicine.

She studied novel immunotherapies for Alzheimer’s disease in the laboratory of Roger Nitsch and Christoph Hock at the University of Zurich.

She is also Chief Scientific Officer of Altoida, a startup developing non-invasive brain health diagnostics using AI and augmented reality.

Her career paths crossed with Biogen, Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products Roche Diagnostics and Roche Pharmaceuticals the EU Commission Directorate for Health and Food Safety the OECD and several other Alzheimer’s Disease organizations.

Here are some links for you if you want to explore more: 

https://www.womensbrainproject.com

http://altoida.com

Economist Impact paper: Sex gender and the brain: Towards an inclusive research agenda  https://econ.st/3lluJLA

The Lancet covering the Economist Impact paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(23)00120-5/fulltext

Twitter https://twitter.com/womensbrainpro

LI https://www.linkedin.com/company/womensbrainproject/

YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBeR85u3RbgXaGEm2T2iJkQ

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