Education & Training
- Ph.D.: University of Luxembourg, 2019
Major Awards
- EURON Mobility Grant, 2019
- Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease (JPND) Doctoral Fellowship, 2015
Research Interests
Dr. Muhammad Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WashU). His research focuses on identifying biomarkers and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). His work leverages large-scale, multi-platform proteomic datasets to uncover disease-specific and shared molecular signatures across tissues (cerebrospinal fluid and plasma) and disease stages.
Recent Publications
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Biomarkers
Gong, K., Timsina, J., Ali, M., Chen, Y., Liu, M., Wang, C., Patel, M. P., Heo, G., Benzinger, T. L. S., Schindler, S., Morris, J., Holtzman, D., Ibanez, L. & Cruchaga, C., Dec 1 2025, In: Alzheimer’s & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. 21, p. e101191
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Biomarkers
Global Neurodegeneration Proteomics Consortium (GNPC), Dec 1 2025, In: Alzheimer’s & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. 21, p. e100576
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Biomarkers
Ali, M., Xu, Y., Heo, G., Timsina, J., Liu, M., Budde, J. P., Gentsch, J. & Cruchaga, C., Dec 1 2025, In: Alzheimer’s & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. 21, p. e099428
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Temporal transcriptomic changes in the THY-Tau22 mouse model of tauopathy display cell type- and sex-specific differences
Ali, M., Garcia, P., Lunkes, L. P., Sciortino, A., Thomas, M. H., Heurtaux, T., Grzyb, K., Halder, R., Skupin, A., Buée, L., Blum, D., Buttini, M. & Glaab, E., Dec 2025, In: Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 13, 1, 93.
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Author Correction: Integrating digital gait data with metabolomics and clinical data to predict outcomes in Parkinson’s disease (npj Digital Medicine, (2024), 7, 1, (235), 10.1038/s41746-024-01236-z)
NCER-PD Consortium, Dec 2025, In: npj Digital Medicine. 8, 1, 645.