Djuna von Maydell

Djuna earned her Ph.D. in the Computationally Enabled Integrative Neuroscience program at MIT in September 2025, where she was advised by Li-Huei Tsai. Her doctoral work combined computational and experimental approaches to uncover how genetic variants in the lipid transport genes APOE and ABCA7 increase Alzheimer’s disease risk. She also leverages approaches from foundational machine learning to develop frameworks for disease subtyping with the goal of designing stratified treatment approaches.