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Ph.D. in Neuroscience
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Marina Aboelsaad

Mentor: Laura Bianchi, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Ijeoma Akpu

Mentor: Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Victoria Avon

MentorEstefania Quesada-Masachs, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Megan Barber

Mentor: Nadine Kerr, Ph.D. & Suhrud Rajguru, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Alexis Brake

Mentor: Daniel Liebl
Project: Pending
Lauren Bystrom

Lauren Bystrom

MentorLuis M. Tuesta, Ph.D.
ProjectThe Role of Parabrachial CGRP neurons in Opioid Reinforcement
Tatyana Camejo

Tatyana Camejo

Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
ProjectThe neuroprotective role of the NAD biosynthetic pathway enzymes in medium spiny neurons directly converted from patient derived fibroblasts of Huntington’s Disease patients
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Sunjoo Cho

MentorRoshni Thakkar, Ph.D., Dileep Yavagal, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Carlos Oliva

Mentor: Laura Bianchi, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Erika Pierre

Mentor: Michal Toborek, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Isabella Gay

Mentor: Laura Bianchi, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Joshua Ceisler

Mentor: James Guest, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Marla Marquez

Mentor: Daniel Liebl, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Antonella Mini

Mentor: Roberta Brambilla, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Maykeling Gutierrez

Mentor: Coleen Atkins, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Timonthy Simmons

Mentor: Eva Widerstrom-Noga, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Matthew Coppello

Matthew Coppello

Mentor: Girardin Jean-Louis, Ph.D.
Project: Identification and mechanisms of circalunar rhythms in human sleep
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Jessica Dorning

Mentor: Alejandro Caicedo, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Fernando Ferrier

Fernando Javier Ferrier

Mentor: Miguel A. Perez-Pinzon, Ph.D.
ProjectElucidating the effect of post cardiac arrest physical exercised-induced protected medial septum on cognitive function
Scott Frank

Scott Frank

MentorEva Widerström-Noga, Ph.D.
Project: Neuropathic Pain and Cortical Body Representation: EEG Insights and Therapeutic Interventions in Spinal Cord Injury
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Yuan Gao

Mentor: Suhrud Rajguru, Ph.D.
Project: Pending

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Zixuan Hao

Mentors: Richard Lee & Hong Yu
Project: Pending
Cameron Herter

Cameron Herter

Mentor: Patrick Ganzer, Ph.D.
Project: Mapping cardiovascular outflow from the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC)
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Brian Kang

Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Kristiina Kinnuenen

Kristiina Kinnunen

Mentor: Hideki Mochizuki, Ph.D.
Project: Identification of an itch-specific ascending pathway in the human brain
Juliana Laverde-Paz

Juliana Laverde-Paz

Mentor: Zane Zeier, Ph.D.
Project Title: Elucidating disease markers and mechanisms of Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
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Noah Levi

Mentor: Alejandro Caicedo, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Kali Matisse Gilson

Mentor: Helen Bramlett, Ph.D., MS and Michael Hoffer, M.D.
Project: Pending
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Isabel Melo-Escobar

Mentor: Zane Zeier, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Simone Mohite

Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Mark Oppenheimer

Mark Ryan Oppenheimer

Mentor: Sabita Roy, Ph.D.
Project: Impulsivity in the Context of Opioid Use, HIV, and the Gut Microbiome
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Shahil Patel

Mentor: Ami Raval, Ph.D., MSPH
Project: Pending

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Elianny Perozo

Mentor: Claes Wahlestedt, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Meredith Pinkerton

Meredith Pinkerton

Mentor: Eva Widerstrom-Noga, Ph.D. 
ProjectSlowing Proteotoxic Neurodegeneration by Boosting Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Recruiting a Novel Class of Chaperones
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Taylor Pohl

Mentor: Roberta Brambilla, Ph.D., MS
Project: Pending
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Mark Rozencwaig

Mentor: Gary Farkas, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
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Alexandra Remnitz

Mentor: Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari
Project: Pending


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Kyra Schindler

Mentor: Michal Toborek
Project: Pending
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Devika Shukla

Mentor: Jae Lee, Ph.D.
Project: Pending
Amanda Zint

Amanda Zint

Mentor: Jacqueline Sagen, Ph.D., MBA
Project Title: Alleviation of chronic SCI pain using exercise combined with intrathecal hiPSC-derived transplants