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Dr. Eduardo Candelario-Jalil received 2014 Thomas H. Maren Jr. Investigator Award

Congratulations to Dr. Eduardo Candelario-Jalil, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, who was selected as a 2014 Thomas H. Maren Junior Investigator for his project titled “Selexipag Neuroprotection in Ischemic Stroke”. Thomas H. Maren Junior Investigators Fund Dr. Thomas H. Maren (1918-1999) was the first chairman of…

NCF SfN Chapter Conference 2014

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2015 North Central Florida Society for Neuroscience Chapter Conference!  We had a lot of fun and hope everyone learned something at our wonderful poster session, panel, data blitz, and lectures. POSTER COMPETITION RESULTS Undergraduate Winners First Place: Paran Davari Methamphetamine and…

Dr. Jada Lewis publishes in Jan 29, 2014 issue of PLoS One

Novel Marker for the Onset of Frontotemporal Dementia: Early Increase in Activity-Dependent Neuroprotective Protein (ADNP) in the Face of Tau Mutation.Schirer Y, Malishkevich A, Ophir Y, Lewis J, Giladi E, Gozes I.  PLoS One 2014; 9(1):e87383. PMID: 24489906 Abstract Tauopathy, a major pathology in Alzheimer’s disease, is also found…

A scientist’s journey – Dr. Habibeh Khoshbouei

Habibeh Khoshbouei’s research goals brought her from Iran to the U.S. By: Rebecca Burton   Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D., an associate professor of neuropharmacology in the department of neuroscience, remembers her first day in the United States like it was yesterday. A native of Iran, Khoshbouei came to the U.S. to…