May 2025 News

May 29, 2025

Awards, New Papers, and Announcements

Congratulations to Dr. Betul Kara on successfully defending her thesis on March 27, 2025!
Congratulations to Dr. Carlye Szarowicz on successfully defending her thesis on April 15, 2025!
The Impact of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor rs6265 (Val66Met) Polymorphism on Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration: A Preclinical Study of Therapy-Genotype Interactions. Jordan B Walters, Maria J Quezada, Suning He, Ciara S Haynes, Kathy Steece-Collier, Timothy J Collier, Caryl E Sortwell, Colin K Franz. Muscle Nerve (2025) Apr 21. doi: 10.1002/mus.28409. PMID: 40259679
Intrastriatal injection of alpha-synuclein preformed fibrils to rats results in L-DOPA reversible sensorimotor impairments and alterations in non-motor function. Fleming SM, Scott S, Hamad EJ, Herman DE, Holden JG, Yan L, Linning-Duffy K, Kemp CJ, Patterson JR, Miller KM, Kubik M, Kuhn N, Stoll AC, Duffy MF, Steece-Collier K, Cole-Strauss A, Lipton JW, Luk KC, Sortwell CE. Front Neurosci. (2025) Apr 1;19:1556447. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1556447. eCollection 2025.PMID: 40236948
Michael Kubik has been awarded the John A. Penner Endowed Research Assistantship for the academic year 2025-26.
Dr. Napissara Boonpraman was received 1st prize at the NTSS poster competition.
Dr. Dylan Finneran was accepted into the MADRC REC mentorship program.

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