VASCOG EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATORS
The VasCog Early Career Investigators (VasCog ECI) is a network of researchers who study any aspect of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). Early career investigators include MD students, PhD students, postdocs, and assistant professors. Studying any aspect of VCI means we invite translational research in this area – basic, pre-clinical, clinical, and global public health. We believe that the key to high quality research lies in solid collaborations built over time. Since early career investigators are the future of the VCI research field, we create this network early in our careers. To achieve this, we invite you to take part. The VasCog ECI will have an independent session and social event at the VasCog biannual meeting. In addition, you can connect with us through our LinkedIn page, where the VasCog ECI will post updates about interesting and innovative conferences, e-courses, workshops, papers, platforms, and more!
The current VasCog ECI representatives are Dr. Satoshi Hosoki and Angelina Kirilova Kancheva. Starting in the spring of 2022, we launched ECI VasCog meetings twice per year! These meetings focus on topics in the VCI research field and provide ECI researchers with an (extra) opportunity to present and discuss their work with peers. We will advertise the topics for the ECI VasCog meetings on this website, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
If you have any suggestions for future topics, or other activities that can help you in your early careers, please feel free to email us (vascogeci@gmail.com)! Stay tuned!
Satoshi Hosoki - Early Career Investigator
Associate Chief of Neurology
Dr. Satoshi Hosoki is Associate Chief of Neurology at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital. A neurologist specializing in stroke, small vessel disease, and vascular cognitive impairment and dementia, he integrates clinical expertise with biomarker, neuroimaging, and translational research. Mentored by Dr. Masafumi Ihara at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center and Professor Perminder Sachdev at the University of New South Wales, he conducts research spanning plasma and CSF biomarkers, arterial spin labeling perfusion imaging, and microbial contributions to cerebrovascular injury, including identifying an association between Cnm-positive Streptococcus mutans and cerebral microbleeds—an observation that led to the multicenter RAMESSES study. He is first author of papers in Nature Reviews Neurology, Neurology, and Stroke, and a contributing co-author on major consensus and clinical research publications in JAMA Neurologyand the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). Dr. Hosoki contributed to the development of the Revised VasCog-2-WSO diagnostic criteria, served on the VasCog 2023 Scientific Committee, and has authored key studies on molecular biomarkers of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia as well as DWI-positive lesions in intracerebral hemorrhage. His research aims to establish robust imaging and molecular biomarkers to advance early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia.
Angelina Kirilova Kancheva - Early Career Investigator
PhD student
Angelina Kirilova Kancheva is currently a final-year PhD student on the Medical Research Council-funded Doctoral Training Program in Precision Medicine, jointly run by the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Her research, primarily based at the University of Glasgow, focuses on describing the clinical phenotype of cerebral small vessel disease using large-scale population-based studies, such as UK Biobank. She also have a strong interest in stroke and dementia biomarkers more broadly. With a background in Clinical Neuroscience (Neuroscience & Cognition Research Master, Utrecht University) and Psychology (Master of Arts, University of Glasgow), she has been fortunate to gain international research experience through internships and visits to Karolinska Institutet, Massachusetts General Hospital, University College London, and KU Leuven.
Beyond her PhD, she holds several leadership and representative roles. At the University of Glasgow’s Lab for Academic Culture, she supports postgraduate researchers and help work towards fostering a more inclusive academic culture. Within SINAPSE, she serves as the ECR representative for the University of Glasgow and as an ambassador following a successful SECRE-funded research visit to Prof. Susanne van Veluw’s lab at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2024. Alongside this, she also works as a Class Representative Trainer with the Student Representative Council (University of Glasgow), helping new student representatives build confidence, understand EDI principles, and engage effectively with staff and students.
Outside of research, she enjoys trail running, adventure travel, and volunteering with environmental and humanitarian causes.