Sterling Johnson, PhD

Sterling Johnson PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with research interests in early identification of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. He leads the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP), a longitudinal cohort study of 1500+ people at varying levels of risk for sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. He is the associate director and Biomarker Core leader in the Wisconsin ADRC, as well as the associate director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute. Johnson is a co-lead principal investigator for the ADRC Consortium for Clarity in ADRD Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI). ADRC’s nationwide collaborate in CLARiTI for the purpose of elucidating the multiple intersecting etiologies that cause cognitive impairment and that may be present in any given patient. CLARiTI launched in 2023 and will establish standardized brain imaging and blood plasma test protocols to analyze levels and types of amyloid and tau, hallmark biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease, together with assays of other proteinopathies.