University of Iowa Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience student, Ryan Betters, has won the Kwak-Ferguson Fellowship, a $10,000 award from the Iowa Neuroscience Institute for an upper-level graduate student working in the area of neurodegenerative diseases. His research focuses on the...
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Three University of Iowa undergraduates, Daniel Fu, Arshaq Saleem, and Kartik Sivakumar, have won the 2021 Iowa Neuroscience Institute Summer Scholar Awards. The INI Summer Scholar Program supports Iowa undergraduates planning to pursue research during the summer in the lab of an INI faculty member...
The University of Iowa Vice President for Research Discovery & Innovation Awards recognized three INI scholars.
The Iowa Neuroscience Institute has awarded two grants to support early-career faculty members pursuing research in Alzheimer’s disease and in traumatic brain injury. Marco Hefti, MD, assistant professor of pathology, and Elizabeth Newell, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics, will each receive $...
Two University of Iowa faculty members have been awarded Williams-Cannon Faculty Fellowships through the Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI). Catherine Marcinkiewcz PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience and pharmacology, and Jordan Schultz, PharmD, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry,...
New research from the University of Iowa and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center demonstrates that offspring can be protected from the effects of prenatal stress by administering a neuroprotective compound during pregnancy.
Rainbo Hultman, PhD, assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, has been named associate director for diversity, equity, inclusion in the Iowa Neuroscience Institute. She joins the leadership team with INI Director Ted Abel and three additional associate directors. Abel said his...