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Best Female Scientists

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Citations
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Alexa Beiser is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has contributed extensively to medical research with a strong focus on dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and cardiovascular health. Their academic output includes numerous publications spanning several related disciplines, such as physiology, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and molecular biology.

Their research covers a range of topics, primarily centered around dementia and cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, acute ischemic stroke management, sleep and related disorders, sleep and wakefulness research, and cardiovascular health and disease prevention.

Recent notable publications include:

  • New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • The cortical origin and initial spread of medial temporal tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease assessed with positron emission tomography, 2021, Science Translational Medicine
  • Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Association of anthropometry and weight change with risk of dementia and its major subtypes: A meta-analysis consisting 2.8 million adults with 57 294 cases of dementia, 2020, Obesity Reviews
  • Arterial Stiffness and Long-Term Risk of Health Outcomes: The Framingham Heart Study, 2022, Hypertension

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexa Beiser include:

  • Sudha Seshadri
  • Charles DeCarli
  • Claudia L. Satizábal
  • Jayandra J. Himali
  • Ramachandran S. Vasan

They often publish in venues that include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Stroke
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their publication research is predominantly situated within the field of medicine, contributing 382 publications overall, with subfields like physiology, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology being prominent areas of study within their work.

Best Publications

  • Plasma Homocysteine as a Risk Factor for Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

    Sudha Seshadri;Alexa Beiser;Jacob Selhub;Paul F Jacques

  • Lifetime risk for development of atrial fibrillation: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Thomas J. Wang;Thomas J. Wang;Eric P. Leip;Eric P. Leip;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson

  • Residual lifetime risk for developing hypertension in middle-aged women and men: The Framingham Heart Study.

    Ramachandran S. Vasan;Alexa Beiser;Sudha Seshadri;Sudha Seshadri;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson

  • Lifetime Risk for Developing Congestive Heart Failure The Framingham Heart Study

    Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Martin G. Larson;Martin G. Larson;Eric P. Leip;Alexa Beiser

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • Stroke Severity in Atrial Fibrillation The Framingham Study

    Huey-Juan Lin;Philip A. Wolf;Margaret Kelly-Hayes;Alexa S. Beiser

  • The treatment of Kawasaki syndrome with intravenous gamma globulin.

    Newburger Jw;Takahashi M;Burns Jc;Beiser As

  • 50 year trends in atrial fibrillation prevalence, incidence, risk factors, and mortality in the Framingham Heart Study: a cohort study

    Renate B Schnabel;Xiaoyan Yin;Philimon Gona;Martin G Larson

  • Prediction of Lifetime Risk for Cardiovascular Disease by Risk Factor Burden at 50 Years of Age

    Donald M. Lloyd-Jones;Eric P. Leip;Eric P. Leip;Martin G. Larson;Ralph B. D’Agostino;Ralph B. D’Agostino

  • Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease.

    Sudha Seshadri;Annette L. Fitzpatrick;M Arfan Ikram;Anita L. DeStefano

  • A Single Intravenous Infusion of Gamma Globulin as Compared with Four Infusions in the Treatment of Acute Kawasaki Syndrome

    J W Newburger;M Takahashi;A S Beiser;J C Burns

  • Lifetime risk of developing coronary heart disease

    Donald M Lloyd-Jones;Donald M Lloyd-Jones;Martin G Larson;Martin G Larson;Alexa Beiser;Daniel Levy

  • Incidence of Dementia over Three Decades in the Framingham Heart Study

    Claudia L. Satizabal;Alexa S. Beiser;Vincent Chouraki;Geneviève Chêne

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • The Lifetime Risk of Stroke Estimates From the Framingham Study

    Sudha Seshadri;Alexa Beiser;Margaret Kelly-Hayes;Carlos S. Kase

  • The influence of gender and age on disability following ischemic stroke: the Framingham study ☆

    Margaret Kelly-Hayes;Alexa Beiser;Carlos S Kase;Amy Scaramucci

  • The Preclinical Phase of Alzheimer Disease: A 22-Year Prospective Study of the Framingham Cohort

    Merrill F. Elias;Alexa Beiser;Philip A. Wolf;Rhoda Au

  • Midlife vascular risk factor exposure accelerates structural brain aging and cognitive decline.

    S. Debette;S. Seshadri;S. Seshadri;A. Beiser;A. Beiser;R. Au;R. Au

  • Plasma phosphatidylcholine docosahexaenoic acid content and risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Ernst J. Schaefer;Vanina Bongard;Alexa S. Beiser;Stefania Lamon-Fava

  • Gender Differences in Stroke Incidence and Poststroke Disability in the Framingham Heart Study

    Rodica E. Petrea;Alexa S. Beiser;Sudha Seshadri;Margaret Kelly-Hayes

Frequent Co-Authors

Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Philip A. Wolf
Philip A. Wolf Boston University
Charles DeCarli
Charles DeCarli University of California, Davis
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au Boston University
Ramachandran S. Vasan
Ramachandran S. Vasan The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Carlos S. Kase
Carlos S. Kase Boston University
Anita L. DeStefano
Anita L. DeStefano Boston University
Ralph B. D'Agostino
Ralph B. D'Agostino Wake Forest University
M. Arfan Ikram
M. Arfan Ikram Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington

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