The Institute for Clinical Research Education is highlighting Colleen Judge-Golden's work. The article explains why Colleen has chosen to get a Ph.D. in Clinical and Translational Science Program: "She had begun to think about how much greater an impact the circumstances of people’s lives outside the hospital can have on the course of their treatment, far beyond what health professionals are able to accomplish during a short appointment in a clinic. She switched her focus to the area of...
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September 16, 2018
Dr. Heather Acuff publishes her article "Association of Neuroimaging Measures of Emotion Processing and Regulation Neural Circuitries With Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder in Offspring at Risk for Bipolar Disorder," in JAMA Psychiatry. She concludes "To our knowledge, this is the first study to use both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of emotion processing and regulation neural circuitries in youth at risk for BD vs comparative at-risk and healthy control groups. We show that greater right rACC...
September 14, 2018
Congrats Gary!
September 12, 2018
MSTP Alumni Shinjini Kundu was awarded the 35 Innovators Under 35 2018 for her creation of an artificial-intelligence (AI) system that can decipher medical images. From the MIT Technology Review, "Kundu’s system allows humans to look through the eyes of the computer to discover otherwise imperceptible...
August 13, 2018
May 30, 2018
Congratulations to student Aaron Sun, Ph.D., and alumni Ricardo Londono, Ph.D. for publishing their article "Differences in neural stem cell identity and differentiation capacity drive divergent regenerative outcomes in lizards and salamanders" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Abstract
While lizards and salamanders both exhibit the ability to regenerate amputated tails, the outcomes achieved by each are markedly different....
August 5, 2018
Student Victoria Heinrich (MS2) at her wedding on August 5, 2018. Congratulations Victoria!
August 4, 2018
Students had fun playing capture the flag during this year's annual retreat to Seven Springs.
Congratulations to Laura Molina (G1) & Gaelen Dwyer (G1) for receiving the Chateaubriand Fellowship!
The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. It supports outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who wish to conduct research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 9 months. Chateaubriand fellows are selected through a merit-based competition.
April 23, 2018