March News

March 1, 2021

Papers and Awards

Kathy Steece-Collier was selected as the 2021 recipient of the MSU Innovation of the Year Award for her work in the development of gene therapy-mediated therapeutics for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease.
Ash PEA, Lei S, Shattuck J, Boudeau S, Carlomagno Y, Medalla M, Mashimo BL, Socorro G, Al-Mohanna LFA, Jiang L, Öztürk MM, Knobel M, Ivanov P, Petrucelli L, Wegmann S, Kanaan NM, Wolozin B. TIA1 potentiates tau phase separation and promotes generation of toxic oligomeric tau. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(9):e2014188118. PMID: 33619090.
Sortwell (PI), Patterson (Co-I) were awarded $148,539.84 from the Michael J Fox Foundation to study TM9SF2 Knockdown to Decrease Pathological Alpha-Synuclein Induced Degeneration. 04/01/2021 – 09/30/2022

Olivia Leighton joins the Kanaan Lab as a Research Technologist I
Carlye Szarowicz joins the Steece-Collier Lab as a Graduate Student/Pharm-Tox PhD Candidate