Yian Gu, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Research Scientist
The Taub Institute
630 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-305-6684
Fax: 212-342-1838
E-mail: yg2121@columbia.edu
Ongoing Research:
Mechanisms mediating the association of the Mediterranean Diet (MeDi) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk.Previous studies from our group have demonstrated that higher adherence to the MeDi was related with reduced risk for incident AD. To extend and refine these findings, my current research focuses on investigating possible mechanisms mediating the association between MeDi and risk of AD. Specifically, pathways including inflammatory, oxidative, metabolic, and vascular will be investigated using circulating biomarkers.
Other composite dietary patterns and risk of AD. Recent literature on the effect of individual dietary elements is conflicting. I am interested in exploring the effect of hypothesis-free composite dietary patterns, by using statistical techniques such as reduced rank regression and canonical variance analysis, in AD risk.