Author name: Tara Coker

2023 CCAD Alumni Publications

New Vision Research Focus – Fanny Elahi As a physician-scientist, my clinical work and research are closely related to each other and have the goal of bridging the gap between how we think of disease in the clinic and what we understand about the molecular underpinnings and drivers of disease in the laboratory. My goal

Managing Your Lab & Personnel “How to Handle Difficult Conversations” Join us on December 4th for the second installment of our 4-part “Zoom Your Career” webinar series. This session will focus on Managing Your Lab & Personnel “How to Handle Difficult Conversations”. Registration will close on Monday, November 27th. We hope to see you there!

NIH awards $10.6 million for central nervous system metabolism research center at UK, Maj-Linda Selencia among 3 early career scientists selected for funding Photo credit: Ben Corwin | Research Communications The University of Kentucky has been awarded a prestigious Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant to study central nervous system metabolism from the National

Register for Webinar: Managing Grant and Lab Finances “How to Keep a Steady Funding Stream” Join us on October 2nd as we kick off the first live webinar of our 4-part series to help “Zoom Your Career”. This session will focus on Managing Grant and Lab Finances or “How to Keep a Steady Funding Stream”.

Let’s help one of our alumni and the people of Hawaii facing the devastating fire! You have all heard of the devastating Maui fire and if you participated in the CCAD 2022 reunion, you know that Hawaii is dear to our hearts. We reached out to one of our own, Dr. John Kauwe, President of

With $3.7M+ from NIH, Andreana Benitez leads a clinical trial on the optimal dose of TMS With more than $3.7 million in funding from the National Institute on Aging, Medical University of South Carolina neuropsychologist Andreana Benitez, Ph.D., of the Department of Neurology in the College of Medicine will lead a phase II clinical trial to determine the

Cristian Lasagna-Reeves Wins Inge-Grundke-Iqbal Award at AAIC23 Congratulations to Dr. Cristian Lasagna-Reeves, the 2023 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) recipient of the Inge Grande-Iqbal award for Alzheimer’s Research. This award is presented to the senior author of the most impactful study published in Alzheimer’s research in the two calendar years preceding AAIC. READ MORE

Twitter Selfie Contest: Win $500 Travel Award CONTEST CLOSED CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Shea Andrews on winning the $500 travel award for the most selfies taken with fellow alumni at #AAIC23! With so many CCAD alumni attending AAIC23, we thought it would be fun to do a contest giving each of you a CHANCE TO WIN

Alison Goate is the First Female to Win Prize From Prestigious German Research Institute Congratulations to Dr. Alison Goate! The Jean C. And James W. Crystal Professor and Chair of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been selected as the first female recipient of the Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE