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Savannah Boyen

Congratulations to Savannah Boyen, a first-year graduate student in the Banerjee Lab, for winning the Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Award at the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience Retreat!!!

May 4, 2026

Congratulations to Savannah Boyen, a first-year graduate student in the Banerjee Lab, for winning the Outstanding Graduate Student Poster Award at the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience Retreat!!!  


Enrique Ricky Piedra

Congratulations to Ricky Piedra having been selected to receive a 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship award!!

April 30, 2026


Congratulations to Drs. Palavicini and Koronowski for being highlighted in the UTHSCSA Newsroom article titled “UT San Antonio team studies circadian disruption’s role in Alzheimer’s disease”!!! (Click on link to view article)

April 23, 2026


Congratulations to Dr. Rasmussen’s lab for their publication titled “Hyperactive Muscle mTORC1 Attenuates Functional Adaptations to Endurance Training Despite Alterations in Mitochondrial and Lipid Profiles” in Journal of Applied Physiology. (Click here to view publication)

April 15, 2026

Qian Shi, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Dr. Qian Shi for his publication titled “Purkinje cell-specific loss of Neurofascin and Ankyrin G causes disruption of axon initial segments, neurodegeneration, and cerebellar ataxia” in the Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. (Click here to view publication)

April 14, 2026


Congratulations to Drs. Swati Banerjee, Georgianna Gould, and all NINDS R25 SPUR Program faculty on the successful renewal of the NINDS R25 training grant!

April 13, 2026


Congratulations to Josh Murillo on being a recipient of the AADOCR Student fellowship!!

April 10, 2026


CONGRATULATIONS TO THE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM POSTER AWARD WINNERS!!

April 9, 2026


CONGRATULATIONS TO ERIK MARCHANT ON BEING SELECTED AS THE RECIPIENT OF THIS YEAR’S JOHN M. JOHNSON DISTINGUISHED STUDENT AWARD!

April 9, 2026

 


Lynette C. Daws, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Dr. Daws on publication titled “It’s not all DAT: harnessing the potential of organic cation transporter 3 inhibition to selectively attenuate amphetamine reinforcement and dopamine release” in Neuropsychopharmacology (click to view publication)

April 9, 2026