Congratulations to Dr. Robbe Goris on his RO1 from the National Eye Institute!
This award will provide more than 1.5 million over four years to support his research project "Uncertainty, inference, and introspection in the primate visual system".
Brief Summary: Vision science seeks to understand how the visual system functions and aims to develop treatments for visual pathologies. The proposed studies to investigate the processing of visual uncertainty in cortex and its role in perception will provide rigorous steps towards those goals. The
Dr. Nihal Salem received the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) Young Investigator Award (2022) at the 14th Congress of ESBRA (September 8th – 11th 2013) Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Salem is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mayfield lab at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research. Her current work focuses on utilizing single cell and spatial transcriptomics to identify molecular mechanisms mediating escalation of alcohol consumption and using drug repurposing to identify
Congratulations to Dylan Kirsch, INS graduate student in the Lippard Lab, on her predoctoral fellowship award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism!
This award provides two years of support for her research "Ventral Prefrontal Network Connectivity and Alcohol Sensitivity in Bipolar Disorder and Typically Developing Young Adults".
Brief Summary: Alcohol use disorders affect up to 60% of individuals with bipolar disorder and are associated with more severe illness outcomes, yet we lack sufficient understanding of the
Congratulations to Drs. Laura Colgin and Darrin Brager on their RO1 from the National Institute of Mental Health!
This award will provide more than 3 million dollars over a four year period to support their their research proposal “Investigating mechanisms underlying impaired social and spatial cognition in rodent models of Fragile X syndrome”.
Brief Summary: Fragile X syndrome (FX) is associated with deficits in social and spatial behaviors, yet the neural mechanisms responsible for these impairments remain poorly understood. Hippocampal areas
