Nicole Schupf

Nicole Schupf is an American epidemiologist and neuroscientist who is Professor of Epidemiology in Neurology, Psychiatry, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University Faculty of Medicine. She studies aging and Alzheimer's disease in individuals with Down syndrome.

Education and early career Schupf graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1964. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1970, trained as a physiological psychologist. She worked on neuroimmunological mechanisms in lupus cerebritis for several years before going on to pursue an M.P.H. from the University of California in 1984 and a Dr.P.H. in epidemiology from Columbia University, which she received in 1995. She is involved in longitudinal, multidisciplinary work searching for biomarkers that could define the progression of AD in this population.

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Personal life Schupf was married to H. Jack Geiger from 1982 until his death in 2020.