2025
April: A paper led by Dr. Leng that focused on differences in at-home measures of sleep apnea across racial and ethnic groups and sex was published in AnnalsATS.
March: "Five-Year Changes in 24-Hour Sleep-Wake Activity and Dementia Risk in Oldest Old Women," led by research coordinator Sasha Milton and Dr. Leng, was published in Neurology and featured in the Washington Post and elsewhere.
January: Dr. Leng and her collaborators’ research on REM sleep latency and Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers was published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia. These findings were highlighted in Neuroscience News and UCSF News.
January: Jiawen Chen joined MoonLAIT as an Assistant Specialist!
2024
November: Dr. Leng was the plenary speaker at the Korean Sleep Society annual meeting!
October: Postdoc Yi Fang started at MoonLAIT!
July: MoonLAIT went to AAIC 2024 in Philadelphia, PA!
⇒ MoonLAITers presented their work at the conference, including "Five-year changes in 24-hour sleep-wake activity and risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia among older women," which Sasha Milton presented as an oral presentation. Click here to see everything that we presented!
June: "Snoring and risk of dementia: a prospective cohort and Mendelian randomization study" was published in Sleep.
June: MoonLAIT went to SLEEP 2024 in Houston, TX!
⇒ Sasha Milton presented "Heart Rate Variability During Sleep and Future Risk of Parkinson’s Disease in Community-Dwelling Older Men" as an oral presentation, his first at a professional conference!
⇒ Dr. Leng presented "Longitudinal changes in 24-h sleep-wake patterns and all-cause mortality in older women" as an oral presentation.
⇒ MoonLAITers presented several posters, including "Association Between Objective Sleep Architecture and Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease" (Jiong Chen). Click here to see everything that we presented!
May: Dr. Leng received a new NIH R01 award for the LifeSPAN project focused on lifecourse sleep, cognitive decline and risk of Alzheimer's disease.
February: Dr. Leng's editorial, a collaboration with Dr. Kristine Yaffe entitled "Harnessing Brain Pathology for Dementia Prevention," was published in JAMA Neurology.
January: "Association Between Sleep Quantity and Quality in Early Adulthood With Cognitive Function in Midlife" (peer-reviewed article) was published in Neurology. This research, led by Dr. Leng, was featured in Neuroscience News.
2023
September: Dr. Leng received a new NIH R21 award for the STAI-SHARP project focused on polysomnography-based digital biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson disease.
June: Research coordinator Sasha Milton joined MoonLAIT!
Feb/March: Dr. Leng and her research on sleep medications and dementia risk were featured in the U.S News and World Report and by Discovery Magazine.
2022
March: Dr. Leng's work on the connection beteen napping and Alzheimer's disease was featured by the Guardian and CNN.
Older highlights
June 2020: HealthDay featured Dr. Leng's research on circadian rhythms and Parkinson's disease risk in an article.
September 2019: An article discussing Dr. Leng's research on napping was published in NBC News.
August 2017: Reuters featured Dr. Leng and her work on sleep-disordered breathing and cognitive decline.
October 2014: Dr. Leng was featured in Time magazine article focused on the pros and cons of napping.