Alicia Algeciras-Schimnich, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Dr. Alicia Algeciras-Schimnich, Ph.D., is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the Director of the Clinical Immunoassay Laboratory where she has led the evaluation and clinical implementation of Alzheimer’s disease, CSF, and blood biomarkers. Dr. Algeciras-Schimnich has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters. She serves as principal investigator of a number of industry-sponsored studies at Mayo Clinic and serves a co-leader for the Biomarker Core of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). Her research interests focus on the Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, biomarkers of neurodegeneration, tumor markers, and the use of multianalyte assays with algorithm analysis (MAAA) in clinical diagnosis.