Apply now for our Innovator Awards. We’re looking to provide $750,000 each to 2 advanced Asst. Professors & recently appointed Associate Professors (MDs and PhDs) leading research on cognitive aging. July 31 deadline is quickly approaching. Please click the link below for more information. Innovator Awards in…
Congratulations to Abigail Anderson who is in Dr.Malú Gámez Tansey’s lab. She is officially a published author. Please find the link to her article below. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.15.549151v1.full…
Congratulations to Dr. Nancy Padilla-Coreano who was awarded a Simons SFARI pilot grant together with Dr. Shreya Saxena of Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The Department of Neuroscience is pleased to announce our summer graduates. Ph.D. program graduate is Grace Lloyd. Dr. Lloyd’s mentor was Benoit Giasson, Ph.D. The In-Person Master’s program graduates are Emely Gazarov who’s mentor was Barry Setlow, Ph.D. Emely’s dissertation title was “Pharmacokinetics of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol following acute cannabis smoke…
Drs. Habibeh Khoshbouei and Benoit Giasson were awarded a new R21 from NINDS entitled “The interactions between myenteric macrophages and enteric neurons shape the development and spread of enteric synucleinopathy”. Dr. Jake Streit is a co-Investigator on an R01 awarded to the University of Miami…
Sara N. Burke, Ph.D., has been promoted to full professor in the Department of Neuroscience. Dr. Burke is also the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory and the founding director of the Summer Neuroscience Internship Program (SNIP). Dr. Burke’s research looks into how diet and metabolic function…
