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Dr. Manu Sharma: Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award in Neuroscience!

Dr. Manu Sharma is the winner of the 2020 Feil Family BMRI Mentor of the Year Award in Neuroscience. The award is based on nominations from the student community, followed by recommendation of a committee composed of the Neuroscience Program Chair, the Program Director, and current Graduate Students. This Award recognizes Dr. Sharma’s mentorship building, scientific training, and communication with graduate students and other mentees.

Dr. Anna Orr: Winner of the 2021 Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award in Neuroscience!

Anna Orr received the 2021 Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award in Neuroscience from the Weill Cornell Graduate School. The award recognizes a faculty member who has been exemplary in showing their dedication and giving their time to training first-year and second-year students during their early transition into the graduate program.

Congratulations! Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience awarded to Virginia Gao

Dr. Virginia Gao from the Burré lab received the Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience. Her proposal, “Mechanisms of α-synuclein mediated pathology in the central and enteric nervous system in Parkinson’s disease,” seeks to understand how biochemical changes in the gut and brain contribute to disease pathogenesis using animal models and human subjects.

The Eighth Annual Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute Symposium is scheduled virtually on Wednesday, October 14th, 2020

The Eighth Annual Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute Symposium is scheduled virtually on Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 from 1:00PM - 2:30PM.

This is an outstanding annual event hosted by Dean Choi, Appel Alzheimer's Institute and the Feil Family BMRI. Dr. Li Gan, Director of the Appel Institute will open the symposium, followed by four cutting edge scientific presentations by Dr. Jonathan...

Congratulations! Second R01 from the NIH Awarded to Dr. Anna Orr’s team

Mitochondria are organelles that produce energy and participate in normal intracellular signaling. However, they also release free radicals that can impair neural cells and promote disorders of the brain. The main contributing factors in dementia, including aging and proteinopathy, are linked to mitochondrial dysfunction and accumulation of free radicals. Recent evidence suggests that mitochondrial free radicals act as central drivers of diverse pathogenic processes in dementia. Dr. Orr’s...