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Congratulations to the Bhat Lab for receiving funding from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on a 3 year research project titled ” Restoration of Axonal Domains in Myelinated Axons and Prevention of Motor Disability”. The goals of this project are to restore specific axonal domains in myelinated axons with the hope of improving nerve impulse conduction to prevent and/or reverse muscle atrophy.

November 17, 2020

Congratulations to graduate student, JP Andersen for his cover story in Molecular Metabolism titled: Aster-B coordinates with Arf1 to regulate mitochondrial cholesterol transport!!

November 17, 2020

Congratulation to Dr. Jun Hee Kim for receiving a NIH R21 grant award titled, Genetic profiles and physiological heterogeneity of oligodendrocytes!!

November 6, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Shapiro for receiving a grant award from the William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation!!

November 4, 2020

Congratulations to the Lee lab for their recent publication in Scientific Reports! Especially to the Lee lab students (high school and Undergraduate) and a talented research assistant, Shree Panda, who worked very hard to get this project published. This study is about a novel behavioral phenotype (contagious itch behavior) in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome, which is a neurodevelopmental disorder and is often accompanied with autistic features.

October 19, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Shapiro for receiving a Morrison Trust grant award!

October 5, 2020

Congratulations to Mackenna Wollet for being awarded the Biology of Aging T32 training grant!

September 23, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Lyn Daws for receiving a NIH U18 grant award!!

September 23, 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Veronica Galvan on receiving a new NIH R01 Grant Award!!

September 14, 2020

Congratulations to Cassandra Wolsh, graduate student in the lab of Dr. Jeff Boychuk, for being selected for the Neuroscience T32!

August 10, 2020

Cassandra Wolsh, a second-year student in the Neuroscience discipline of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences program is one of the recipients of the Neuroscience T32 award. The T32 award is an award given by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to enable institutions to recruit individuals selected by the program leadership for advanced research […]