Christian Pike

Christian Pike is a professor at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and a member of the USC Neuroscience Program. His ongoing work focuses on Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative disorders. His laboratory studies the role of neuronal apoptosis in neural diseases. Recently, his research found new use for synthetic estrogens in lessening the effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy for Alzheimer's patients.^[1]

Honors and awards

Turken Award from the Alzheimer's Association
Trainee, National Institute of Mental Health Predoctoral Training Grant
Fellow, John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation
Andrus Center Associates, Small Grant Award
Hanson Family Trust Assistant Professor of Gerontology
USC Mellon Mentoring Award (Graduate Students)
Barron AM, Brown MA, Morgan TE, and Pike CJ (2015) Impact of continuous versus discontinuous progesterone on estradiol regulation of neuronal viability and sprouting following entorhinal cortex lesion in female rats. Endocrinology (journal) 156 (3): 1091–1099.
Yin F, Yao J, Sancheti H, Feng T, Melcangi RC, Morgan TE, Finch CE, Pike CJ, Mack WJ, Cardenas E, and Brinton RD (2015) Perienopause is a bioenergetic transition of female brain characterized by deficits in glucose metabolism and synaptic function. Neurobiology of Aging 36 (7): 2282–2295. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2015.03.013.
Christensen A and Pike CJ (2015) Menopause, obesity and inflammation: Interactive risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 7: 130. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00130
Moser VA and Pike CJ (2015) Obesity and sex interact in the regulation Alzheimer's disease. Neuroscience & Behavioral Reviews. In press.
Cacciottolo M, Christensen A, Moser VA, Liu J, Pike CJ, Morgan TE, Dolzhenko E, Charidimou A, Wahlund L-O, Wilberg K, Chiang GC-Y and Finch CE (in revision) Sex and APOE alleles in the microbleeds and Alzheimer's disease of mice and men. Neurobiology of Aging.