July News

July 28, 2022

Papers and Awards

  • Joe Patterson has been awarded $20,000 as the recipient of the Pearl J. Aldrich Faculty Research Award (funded by the Pearl J. Aldrich Endowment in Aging Related Research and Education). The project title is “Assessment of glycolysis in a synucleinopathy model of Parkinson’s disease in aged rats" with dates of 7/1/22 to 6/30/23.
  • Ono M, Komatsu M, Ji B, Takado Y, Shimojo M, Minamihisamatsu T, Warabi E, Yanagawa T, Matsumoto G, Aoki I, Kanaan NM, Suhara T, Sahara N, Higuchi M. Central role for p62/SQSTM1 in the elimination of toxic tau species in a mouse model of tauopathy. Aging Cell. 2022 Jun 5:e13615. PMID: 35662390.
  • Stoll AC, Sortwell CE(2022) Leveraging the preformed fibril model to distinguish between alpha-synuclein inclusion- and nigrostriatal degeneration-associated immunogenicity. Neurobiol Dis. 2022 Jun 25:105804. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105804. PMID: 35764290
  • Kelley CM, Ginsberg SD, Liang WS, Counts SE, Mufson EJ. (2022) Posterior cingulate cortex reveals an expression profile of resilience in cognitively intact elders. Brain Commun. 21;4(4):fcac162. PMID: 35813880
  • Nick Kanaan was awarded $154,759 by Inhibikase Therapeutics Inc. Title study is “Generation of Novel pY39 α-Synuclein Monoclonal Antibodies” with dates of 6/1/22 to 5/31/23

Staff Update

  • Congratulations to Joe Kochmanski (and sadness for TransNeuro) on accepting a position outside of MSU. Last Day: Tuesday, July 12.