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The Ninth Annual Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute Symposium is scheduled virtually on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021

The Ninth Annual Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute Symposium is scheduled virtually on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 from 2:30PM - 4:00PM.

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. Jacqueline Burré from Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Ana Maria Cuervo from Albert Einstein College of...

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 was determined through student nomination and committee review. Congratulations!

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 faculty dedication to training early-stage graduate students in the 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.