"The Alzheimer’s Association is awarding the School of Medicine’s John Lukens, PhD, a 2018 Research Grant Award. This funding will support research critical to developing more-effective strategies for detecting/treating/preventing Alzheimer’s."
Click here to read more about the newest round of pan-University UVA Brain Institute funding.
Photo: Dr. Jaideep Kapur directs UVA’s multi-disciplinary Brain Institute. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)
NGP Director Chris Deppmann and NGP student Sushanth Kumar are highlighted in this UVA Today piece about the UVA Brain Institute's Presidential Fellowships in Neuroscience.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/brain-development-alzheimers-grad-fell...
Congratulations to Thaddeus Weigel, NGP first year student, who has just received the Peach Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to first year BIMS students in their 2nd semester who show exceptional promise as determined by (1) their achievements and honors prior to matriculating in BIMS and (2) their academic performance thus far in our graduate program. In recognition of this honor, he will be receiving a one-time monetary award of $500. The Peach Fellowship also covers a portion of the student's stipend.
Shahzad Khan (NGP, George Bloom lab) is famous!
His face made it to the Society for Neuroscience 2018 Annual Meeting website page, as well as the ASCB website home page! Check him out here:
https://www.sfn.org/annual-meeting/neuroscience-2018
Congratulations to Dr. Javier Provencio for being featured in UVA Today for ground-breaking work!
https://www.news.virginia.edu/content/decoding-brain-injuries-5-question...
The NGP is pround to share today's UVA Connect article featuring NGP’s very own Alban Gaultier (Department of Neuroscience) and Ioana Marin, PhD (NGP May 2017)
The article features their ground-breaking work using microbiome to treat depression.
Congratulations to Kelly Barford, (NGP, Winckler lab) for her latest publication.
As of June 1, 2017, UVA’S Biomedical Sciences (BIMS) and Public Health Science (PHS) graduate students will receive their degrees from the School of Medicine (SOM). Learn more about this on the Dean's Office Blog!
Congrats to Jamie Blair (Jason Druzgal's lab) for receiving the 2017 Presidential Fellowship for Collaborative Neuroscience!
Dr. Meng Zhuang (Chemistry, 2020) received the University of Virginia in Presidential Fellowship in Neuroscience in 2018 while completing her dissertation under the mentorship of Read More
Anastasia Brodovskaya, a Neuroscience Graduate Program student in Dr. Jaideep Kapur's lab at the University of Virginia has received the 2020 Young Investigator Award from the Read More
