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April 25, 2024

Stephanie Eid, Ph.D., Earns Important Grant

The Eisenberg Emerging Scholar received NIH’s coveted Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award, furthering her work to better understand the mechanisms of diabetic neuropathy.

April 22, 2024

Gender Experience & Barriers for Female Clinician-Scientists

Eva Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., James W. Albers Distinguished University Professor of Neurology, was part of a research group that published insights into the role gender plays in the everyday experiences of women clinician scientists and the related barriers they face.

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April 18, 2024

A New Look at Diabetic Neuropathy

Stephanie Eid, Ph.D., led a research team that examined gene expression at two different injury sites in peripheral neuropathy to identify new therapy targets, publishing their findings in Translational Research .

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April 15, 2024

Neurology Today Features Dr. Feldman on Cover

Featured on the cover and in a subsequent story of the American Academy of Neurology's Neurology Today , Dr. Eva Feldman explored the environmental triggers of neurodegenerative disease.

March 25, 2024

The Impact of Alzheimer's in Zambia

The Zambia Cohort of Healthy Aging and Dementia Study (Z-CHAD) was launched by Andrea and Lawrence A. Wolfe Research Professor Melissa Elafros, M.D., Ph.D., to understand the true impact of dementia on patients in Zambia and their caregivers.

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March 20, 2024

Dr. Melissa Elafros Featured CAPRA Awardee

The Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer's (CAPRA) featured Andrea and Lawrence A. Wolfe Research Professor Melissa Elafros, M.D., Ph.D., in the CAPRA Quarterly Winter 2024 edition.

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March 20, 2024

Dr. Goutman Interviewed by Global News

Pranger ALS Clinic Director Stephen Goutman, M.D., M.S., was interviewed by the Canadian media organization about this recent publication on ALS recreational risk.

March 14, 2024

COVID's Disproportionate Effect on Work/Life Balance

In the journal Academic Medicine, Eva Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., was an author of the study “The Disproportionate Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Time Allocation of Recipients of NIH Career Development Awards Who Are Women or Caregivers of Dependents.”

March 8, 2024

International Women's Day 2024

For International Women's Day this year, we highlight our incredible female collaborators from around the world.

March 1, 2024

Dr. Feldman Featured in National Geographic

National Geographic interviewed Eva Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., for a story about a new mouse study that shows popular weight loss drugs could lower inflammation and what this means for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

March 1, 2024

The Exosome & Neurodegenerative Disease: New Discoveries

A research team at the NeuroNetwork for Emerging Therapies wrote a seminal review about the “Role of the Exposome in Neurodegenerative Disease,” which was published in Annals of Neurology , the official journal of the American Neurological Association (ANA).

February 27, 2024

Anti-MAG: Nerves Unraveling

In the area of autoimmune and nerve disorders, people usually think of CIDP (chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy) or Guillain-Barre syndrome. However, there is another autoimmune neuropathy that often goes undiagnosed or mischaracterized as CIDP, called Anti-MAG (myelin-associated-glycoprotein) neuropathy.

February 26, 2024

Gender & Early Career Mentorship

Eva Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., was part of a multi-institutional group of authors who published a research article entitled "Gender Differences in Faculty Perceptions of Mentorship and Sponsorship," in JAMA Open Network Open .

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