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Dr Danit Saks

Dr Danit Saks

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD (Clinical Medicine), MRes (Biomedical Sciences), MBMSc, BSc (Neuroscience)

Medicine & Health
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing

Dr Saks is a post-doctoral research fellow and study coordinator for the AusCADASIL study. She joined the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at University of New South Wales in January 2023 after completing her PhD in clinical medicine (Glaucoma) and Masters of Research in Biomedical Sciences (Alzheimer's Disease) at Macquarie University. She has research experience in the fields of neurodegeneration, neuroscience and vision science, with a focus on Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and glaucoma. 
Phone
+61 2 9348 1658
E-mail
d.saks@unsw.edu.au
Location
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, Level 1, AGSM
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Bentvelzen AC; Kochan NA; Saks DG; Chander RJ; Koncz R; Aam S; Alves GS; Briceno EM; Brodtmann A; Cerami C; Clancy U; Cysique L; Deary IJ; DeCarli C; Dodich A; Godefroy O; Jochems ACC; Jokinen H; Kang Y; Karayanidis F; Kessels RPC; Kyläheiko I; Lancaster K; Laukka EJ; Levine DA; Marseglia A; Pase MP; Peters R; Salmon DP; Salvadori E; Shirk SD; Stokes KA; Sudo FK; Summers MJ; Vandermorris S; Vasquez BP; Sachdev PS, 2025, 'Consensus-Harmonized Neuropsychological Assessment for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia', JAMA Network Open, 8, pp. e2547948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.47948
    Journal articles | 2025
    Sachdev PS; Bentvelzen AC; Kochan NA; Jiang J; Hosoki S; Koncz R; Chander RJ; Saks D; Aben HP; Acosta D; Andersen P; Assal F; Bae HJ; Biessels GJ; Blacker D; Bordet R; Briceno EM; Brodaty H; Brodtmann A; Caramelli P; Castro-Costa E; Chabriat H; Chen C; Clancy U; Cysique L; Decarli C; Ding D; Duering M; Engelhardt E; Gauthier S; Geranmayeh F; Godefroy O; Gorelick P; Greenberg SM; Jelic V; Jokinen H; Kalaria RN; Krishna M; Lancaster K; De Leeuw FE; Lim JS; Marseglia A; Marta-Moreno J; O'Brien JT; Pantoni L; Pase MP; Pendlebury ST; Rosenberg G; Sabayan B; Salvadori E; Samaras K; Sebastian IA; Seshadri S; Smith EE; Srikanth V; Stokes K; Sudo FK; Sveikata L; Valenzuela M; Wallin A; Wardlaw JM; Xu Q, 2025, 'Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia-The VasCog-2-WSO Criteria', JAMA Neurology, 82, pp. 1103 - 1112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.3242
    Journal articles | 2025
    Saks DG; Sachdev PS, 2025, 'Monogenic causes of cerebral small vessel disease- models for vascular cognitive impairment and dementia?', Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 38, pp. 112 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/YCO.0000000000000978
    Journal articles | 2024
    Saks DG; Bajorek B; Catts VS; Bentvelzen AC; Jiang J; Wen W; Mather KA; Thalamuthu A; Huang-Lung J; Nivison-Smith L; Griffiths LR; Smith RA; Sexton A; James P; Jayasena T; Poljak A; Hansra GK; Hosoki S; Park A; Hillenbrand CM; van Wijngaarden P; Chander RJ; Humphrey S; Chen R; Kochan NA; Helman TJ; Levi C; Brodtmann A; O'Sullivan MJ; Markus R; Butcher K; Parsons M; Kovacic JC; Sachdev PS, 2024, 'The protocol for an observational Australian cohort study of CADASIL: The AusCADASIL study', Cerebral Circulation Cognition and Behavior, 6, pp. 100225, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100225
    Journal articles | 2024
    Saks DG; Schulz A; Qassim A; Marshall H; Hewitt A; MacGregor S; Craig JE; Graham SL, 2024, 'Genetic risk of glaucoma is associated with vascular and retinal nerve fibre wedge defects', Acta Ophthalmologica, 102, pp. e185 - e194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aos.15775
    Journal articles | 2024
    Saks DG; Smith EE; Sachdev PS, 2024, 'National and international collaborations to advance research into vascular contributions to cognitive decline', Cerebral Circulation Cognition and Behavior, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cccb.2023.100195
    Journal articles | 2024
    Shen T; Sheriff S; You Y; Jiang J; Schulz A; Francis H; Mirzaei M; Saks D; Palanivel V; Basavarajappa D; Chitranshi N; Gupta V; Wen W; Sachdev PS; Jia H; Sun X; Graham SL; Gupta VK, 2024, 'Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met is Associated with Variation in Cortical Structure in Healthy Aging Subjects', Aging and Disease, 15, pp. 2315 - 2327, http://dx.doi.org/10.14336/AD.2024.0346
    Journal articles | 2023
    Sheriff S; Shen T; Abdal S; Saks D; Mirzaei M; Gupta V; Chitranshi N; You Y; Schultz A; Graham SL; Gupta V, 2023, 'Retinal thickness and vascular parameters using optical coherence tomography in Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis', Neural Regeneration Research, 18, pp. 2504 - 2513, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.371380
    Journal articles | 2023
    Sheriff S; Shen T; Saks D; Schultz A; Francis H; Wen W; Jiang J; Mirzaei M; Gupta V; Fiatarone Singh M; Sachdev PS; Graham SL; Gupta V, 2023, 'The Association of APOE ε4 Allele with Retinal Layer Thickness and Microvasculature in Older Adults: Optic Nerve Decline and Cognitive Change Study', Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12196219
    Journal articles | 2022
    Saks D; Schulz A; Sheriff S; Shen T; Gupta V; Qassim A; Ridge B; Pham R; Craig J; Graham S, 2022, 'Quantification of localised vascular wedge-shaped defects in glaucoma', Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 50, pp. 724 - 735, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ceo.14134
    Journal articles | 2022
    Shen T; Sheriff S; You Y; Jiang J; Schulz A; Francis H; Mirzaei M; Saks D; Chitranshi N; Gupta V; Singh MF; Klistorner A; Wen W; Sachdev P; Gupta VK; Graham SL, 2022, 'Evaluating associations of RNFL thickness and multifocal VEP with cognitive assessment and brain MRI volumes in older adults: Optic nerve decline and cognitive change (ONDCC) initiative', Aging Brain, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2022.100049
    Journal articles | 2022
    Sheriff S; Shen T; Saks D; Chitranshi N; Schulz A; Graham S; Gupta V, 2022, 'Relationship of APOE ε4 allele and BDNF Val66Met polymorphism to retinal structural and vascular OCTA parameters in aging cohort: Optic nerve decline and cognitive change study', Acta Ophthalmologica, 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-3768.2022.0326
    Journal articles | 2021
    Abyadeh M; Gupta V; Chitranshi N; Gupta V; Wu Y; Saks D; Wander Wall R; Fitzhenry MJ; Basavarajappa D; You Y; Salekdeh GH; Haynes PA; Graham SL; Mirzaei M, 2021, 'Mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease - a proteomics perspective', Expert Review of Proteomics, 18, pp. 295 - 304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14789450.2021.1918550
    Journal articles | 2021
    Abyadeh M; Gupta V; Paulo JA; Gupta V; Chitranshi N; Godinez A; Saks D; Hasan M; Amirkhani A; McKay M; Salekdeh GH; Haynes PA; Graham SL; Mirzaei M, 2021, 'A proteomic view of cellular and molecular effects of cannabis', Biomolecules, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biom11101411
    Journal articles | 2021
    Chitranshi N; Kumar A; Sheriff S; Gupta V; Godinez A; Saks D; Sarkar S; Shen T; Mirzaei M; Basavarajappa D; Abyadeh M; Singh SK; Dua K; Zhang KYJ; Graham SL; Gupta V, 2021, 'Identification of novel cathepsin b inhibitors with implications in alzheimer’s disease: Computational refining and biochemical evaluation', Cells, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells10081946
    Journal articles | 2020
    Saks D; Schulz A; Craig J; Graham S, 2020, 'Determination of retinal nerve fibre layer and ganglion cell/inner plexiform layers progression rates using two optical coherence tomography systems: The PROGRESSA study', Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 48, pp. 915 - 926, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ceo.13826
    Journal articles | 2018
    Saks D; Naismith SL; LaMonica H; Mowszowski L; Pye J; Lewis SJG; Hickie IB; Grunstein R; Duffy SL, 2018, 'P1‐653: UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND SLEEP QUALITY IN OLDER ADULTS AT‐RISK FOR DEMENTIA', Alzheimer's & Dementia, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2018.06.665
  • Conference Papers | 2025
    Saks DG; Sachdev PS; Team A, 2025, '3538 Clinical profile of CADASIL: a preliminary case series from AusCADASIL', in Poster Abstracts, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, pp. A34.3 - A35, presented at ANZAN Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 Abstracts, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjno-2025-anzan.93
    Conference Posters | 2024
    Saks DG; Sachdev PS; Group ACS, 2024, 'Improving the global understanding of CADASIL- a monogenic cause of vascular dementia', Vol. 20, pp. e088571 - e088571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.088571
    Conference Abstracts | 2022
    Pham R; Marshall H; Kolovos A; Qassim A; Mullany S; Saks D; To M-S; Agar A; Galanopoulos A; Landers J; Healey PR; Graham SL; Hewitt AW; Casson R; MacGregor S; Siggs OM; Carneiro G; Craig JE; Palmer LJ, 2022, 'Associations between deep learning segmented macular optical coherence tomography cell layer thicknesses and primary open-angle glaucoma outcomes in the PROGRESSA study', in CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 49, pp. 913 - 914, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000721587100203&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Saks D; Qassim A; Marshall H; Hewitt A; MacGregor S; Schulz A; Graham S; Craig J, 2022, 'Genetic risk of glaucoma is associated with focal patterns of vascular loss', in CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 925 - 925, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000876646500074&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Saks D; Schulz A; Craig J; Graham S, 2022, 'Dynamic and static retinal vessel analysis in primary open-angle glaucoma', in CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 924 - 924, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000876646500072&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Saks DG; Schulz A; Qassim A; Ridge B; Pham R; Sheriff S; Shen T; Gupta V; Craig JE; Graham SL, 2022, 'Clinical update on vascular changes in glaucoma', in CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 851 - 851, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000721587100064&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Sheriff S; Shen T; Saks D; Schulz A; Graham S; Gupta V, 2022, 'Influence of the APOE epsilon 4 allele on retinal nerve fibre layer thickness and optical coherence tomography angiography parameters in healthy aging: Optic nerve decline and cognitive change', in CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 962 - 962, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000876646500163&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Saks D; Schulz A; Graham SL, 2021, 'Quantifi cation of Localised Wedge-Shaped Vessel Defects in Glaucoma', in INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000690761400023&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Saks D; Schulz A; Craig J; Graham S, 2019, 'Comparison of RNFL and GCLIPL thicknesses and progression characteristics using two OCT systems: The PROGRESSA Study', in CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OPHTHALMOLOGY, WILEY, pp. 119 - 119, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000493279000198&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1