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Oscar Vivas, Research Assistant Professor, receives MIRA award from National Institutes of Health
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has recognized Dr. Vivas as one of the nation’s highly talented and promising investigators to receive a 2021 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA). The award will provide five years of significant funding for Dr. Vivas’ laboratory’s research. The goals of the MIRA program are to provide investigators…
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Social Justice
On the anniversary of the murdering of George Floyd, our department renews its commitment to eradicate racism from our classroom, laboratories, and from every corner of our society. We work together to build a more equitable and inclusive world with social justice for all. We strive to create a world where all people, independent of…
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Sweta Agrawal, a post-doc in the Tuthill Lab, was recently selected for the Leading Edge Program
https://www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
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New Allen/UW postdoctoral fellowship program
We are glad to announce a new joint postdoctoral fellowship program co-hosted by the Allen Institute and UW partners, the Computational Neuroscience Center and the eScience Institute. The Shanahan Family Foundation has provided support for these fellowships, which aim to bring graduates with training in quantitative disciplines into neuroscience, and to immerse them in exploration…
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Diana de la Cruz selected as a Weill Neurohub Fellow
Dr. de la Cruz works in the laboratory of Oscar Vivas, at UW. Her research aims to identify the molecular mechanisms behind the age-associated hyperexcitability of post-ganglionic neurons, and to evaluate whether a treatment that is known to increase lifespan and healthspan in mice, dogs, and primates can reverse the age-related alterations of post-ganglionic sympathetic…
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Oscar Vivas receives inaugural Sagol Network GerOmic Award for Junior Faculty
New AFAR grant award advances aging research through systems biology Full press release here: https://www.afar.org/news/afar-announces-inaugural-sagol-network-geromic-awards-for-junior-faculty-recipients Given the biological complexity and heterogeneity of the aging process, the emerging field of GerOmics research—which utilizes Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Systems Research, and Tech to study the biology of aging—can play an important role in providing important insights into…
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Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong