May News

May 1, 2020

Papers and Awards

  • Elliott J. Mufson, PD; Scott E. Counts, PL; Nicholas M. Kanaan, Co-I. Neurobiology of Mild Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly Project 1: Neurofibrillary Tangle Evolution in Mild Cognitive Impairment. 04/01/20-03/31/25. $3,075,330 (TC subaward to Debomoy K. Lahiri, Indiana Univ = $1,275,300). NIH P01 AG014449
  • Scott E. Counts, PI; Roxana O. Carare, Co-PI; Timothy J. Collier, Co-I. Noradrenergic Regulation of Amyloid Clearance in AD.  09/01/20-08/31/23. $285,000 awarded by the BrightFocus Foundation.  
  • Irving Vega, PI. “Brain microbial proteome in normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease,” under PD38712, IP00434201. 05/01/2020 – 04/30/2022, Awarded $444,134 by NIH
  • “Striatal Nurr1, but not FosB expression links a levodopa-induced dyskinesia phenotype to genotype in Fisher 344 vs. Lewis hemiparkinsonian rats”. Kathy Steece-Collier, Timothy J. Collier, Jack W. Lipton, Jennifer A. Stancati, Mary E. Winn, Allyson Cole-Strauss, Rhyomi Sellnow, Melissa M. Conti, Natosha M. Mercado, Eduardo A. Nillni, Caryl E. Sortwell, Fredric P. Manfredsson, and Christopher Bishop, Exp Neurol (2020, in press); Online 5 May 2020, 113327; org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2020.113327

Department News

  • Jacob Howe joins the Sortwell Lab as a Neuroscience Program Graduate Student
  • Lindsey Sime joins the Gordon Lab as a Research Assistant I