Ijeoma Akpu
Mentor: Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Danielle Antoine
Mentor: Sabita Roy, Ph.D.
Project: Role of the Gut Microbiome in Prolonged Pain Hypersensitivity Following Neonatal Opioid Exposure
Megan Barber
Mentor: Nadine Kerr, Ph.D. & Suhrud Rajguru, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Alexis Brake
Mentor: Daniel Liebl
Project: Pending
Gerald Bush
Mentor: Daniel Liebl, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Lauren Bystrom
Mentor:
Luis M. Tuesta, Ph.D.
Project:
The Role of Parabrachial CGRP neurons in Opioid Reinforcement
Erika Cabrera Ranaldi
Mentor:
Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, Ph.D., M.S.B.A.
Project Title: Attenuating the Impact of Alzheimer's Disease on Traumatic Brain Injury Pathology by Targeting the Inflammasome
Tatyana Camejo
Mentor:
Antonio Barrientos, Ph.D
Project:
The neuroprotective role of the NAD biosynthetic pathway enzymes in medium spiny neurons directly converted from patient derived fibroblasts of Huntington’s Disease patients
Brianna Carney
Mentor:
Roberta Brambilla, Ph.D.
Project:
Role of astroglial TNFR2 signaling in synaptic and cognitive function in multiple sclerosis
Matthew Coppello
Mentor: Girardin Jean-Louis, Ph.D.
Project: Identification and mechanisms of circalunar rhythms in human sleep
Brianna Cyr
Mentor: Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari, Ph.D.
Project: IC100 as a Novel Therapy for Amyloid-b Related Pathology in Aging
Jessica Dorning
Mentor: Alejandro Caicedo, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Eric Andrew Fagerli
Mentor: Miguel A. Perez-Pinzon, Ph.D.
Project: Role of Enhancing Cerebral NAD+ Metabolism in Oligemia-induced Metabolic Pathology
Fernando Javier Ferrier
Mentor:
Miguel A. Perez-Pinzon, Ph.D.
Project:
Elucidating the effect of post cardiac arrest physical exercised-induced protected medial septum on cognitive function
Scott Frank
Mentor:
Eva Widerström-Noga, Ph.D.
Project: Neuropathic Pain and Cortical Body Representation: EEG Insights and Therapeutic Interventions in Spinal Cord Injury
Yuan Gao
Mentor: Suhrud Rajguru, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Zixuan Hao
Mentors: Richard Lee & Hong Yu
Project: Pending
Cameron Herter
Mentor: Patrick Ganzer, Ph.D.
Project: Mapping cardiovascular outflow from the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC)
Elizabeth Jacobs
Mentors: Stephan Zuchner, Ph.D. & Maria Saporta, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Brian Kang
Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Kristiina Kinnunen
Mentor: Hideki Mochizuki, Ph.D.
Project: Identification of an itch-specific ascending pathway in the human brain
Juliana Laverde-Paz
Mentor:
Zane Zeier, Ph.D.
Project Title: Elucidating disease markers and mechanisms of Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
Noah Levi
Mentor: Alejandro Caicedo, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Barbara Marin
Mentor: Courtney Dumont, Ph.D.
Project: Biomaterials for Harnessing the Neural Stem Cell Secretome
Kali Matisse Gilson
Mentor: Helen Bramlett, Ph.D., MS and Michael Hoffer, M.D.
Project: Pending
Isabel Melo-Escobar
Mentor: Zane Zeier, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Simone Mohite
Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Mark Ryan Oppenheimer
Mentor: Sabita Roy, Ph.D.
Project: Impulsivity in the Context of Opioid Use, HIV, and the Gut Microbiome
Efrain Perez Lao
Mentor: Miguel Perez-Pinzon, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Shahil Patel
Mentor: Ami Raval, Ph.D., MSPH
Project: Pending
Elianny Perozo
Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Meredith Pinkerton
Mentor:
Antonio Barrientos, Ph.D.
Project:
Slowing Proteotoxic Neurodegeneration by Boosting Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Recruiting a Novel Class of Chaperones
Taylor Pohl
Mentor: Roberta Brambilla, Ph.D., MS
Project: Pending
Tate Pollock
Mentor: Luis Tuesta, Ph.D.
Project: Profiling dopamine neurons during cocaine intravenous self-administration
Alexandra Remnitz
Mentor: Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari
Project: Pending
Kyra Schindler
Mentor: Michal Toborek
Project: Pending
Devika Shukla
Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Jack Stahl
Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Developing Novel Therapeutics for Alzheimer's Disease
Maria Yepes
Mentors: Suhrud Rajguru, Ph.D.
Project: Safety and Efficacy of a Pan-Caspase Inhibitor Combined with Therapeutic Hypothermia for Noise-Induced Inner Ear Injury
Amanda Zint
Mentor:
Jacqueline Sagen, Ph.D., MBA
Project Title: Alleviation of chronic SCI pain using exercise combined with intrathecal hiPSC-derived transplants
