Dmitry Postnov
From hypertension to dementia - Unraveling the hidden links with novel translational imaging
Lundbeck Foundation Fellow 2021: Dmitry Postnov, postdoc, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen. With his Fellowship project, he will be an assistant professor at Aarhus University.
Studies of blood pressure and dementia
Science has proven that hypertension can increase the risk of developing dementia in later life. However, we are not sure precisely how the two are linked.
Dmitry Postnov – 30, postdoc at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University – will use his Lundbeck Foundation Fellowship to establish a research group that will seek to answer this question.
Both hypertension and dementia are associated with changes to the cerebral capillaries – and knowledge about how these changes in the brain develop over time can be highly valuable when seeking to design therapies for dementia.
Together with his colleagues, Dmitry Postnov will use laser-based methods of measurement and analysis to give a detailed picture of how changes in these small blood vessels develop.
Dmitry Postnov will use animal models but will also measure the changes in human capillaries.
He will use human retinal imaging to measure these changes and collect the necessary data.
Dmitry Postnov is receiving a grant worth DKK 10 million.
