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Research Events
The Alzheimer's Association Michigan Chapter offers research events that provide up-to-date information on what is currently known about Alzheimer's disease and other dementia and offer insight into where future research may be headed nationally and in Michigan. Researchers hail from Wayne State University in Detroit, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan State University in East Lansing, the surrounding Lansing area and Grand Rapids, and other esteemed institutions through the state.
2026 Research Events
The following research events are brought to you by the Alzheimer's Association in partnership with the Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center:Wednesday, May 6 | 10 a.m.-noon | Traverse City Masonic Lodge
Dr. David Morgan
Register: Contact Kristen Weber
Thursday, May 7 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | Alpena Senior Citizens Center
Dr. David Morgan
Register: Contact Kristen Weber
Thursday, June 4 | 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. | Flint Public Library, CS Mott Foundation Community Room
Dr. Ana Daugherty
Register: Contact Douglas Lobdell
Thursday, June 18 | 9-11 a.m. | Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce, Steelcase Conference Center
Dr. Scott Counts
Register: Contact Claire Fisher
Featured researchers
Dr. David MorganMorgan is a Michigan State University Research Foundation professor and director of the College of Human Medicine Alzheimer's Alliance. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Northwestern University. He has more than 230 peer-reviewed publications and has been continuously funded from the National Institutes of Health since 1989, with over 100 grant-years of support. Morgan served for six years (2013-2019) on the program committee for the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, the last three years as chair.
Dr. Ana DaughertyDaugherty is the Director of the Institute of Gerontology and an Associate Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University. She received both her MA and Ph.D. in Psychology with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience from Wayne State. Her research characterizes individual differences in aging across the adult lifespan to identify both risk and protective factors that modify changes in the brain, and related changes in thinking and memory functions. Daugherty directs the Detroit Aging Brain Study, a community-partnered longitudinal study going on over 22 years in the Metro Detroit area to study changes in brain structure and function across the healthy, adult lifespan.
Dr. Scott CountsCounts is an Associate Professor of Translational Neuroscience at Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine, on the Grand Rapids campus. He received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College, and after working for several years as a chemist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Emory University, studying mechanisms of familial Alzheimer’s Disease. His current research focuses on molecular mechanisms of neuronal projection system vulnerability in MCI/AD as well as vascular contributions to dementia. Counts' research has been continuously funded since 1998, and he is the author of over 75 papers and book chapters on the molecular pathogenesis of dementia.