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the 2025 UF College of Medicine Rising Star Researcher Award in Basic or Translational Sciences.

CTRND's Gemma Casadesus, Ph.D., recently assumed a leadership role in the office of graduate education as Assistant Dean.

Nikolaus McFarland, MD, Ph.D was recently named President Elect of the Society for Neurology in Florida. Dr. McFarland, who is a primary faculty member of CTRND, practices at the Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases.

Jose Abisambra, M.S., Ph.D., and Ramon Sun, Ph.D., have been named to new associate director positions at the McKnight Brain Institute. Abisambra, deputy director of the Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience Center, will serve as associate director for research programs, and Sun, director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Biomolecule Research, will serve as associate director for innovation.

CTRND student’s, Jose Torrellas and Stephan Quintin, won poster awards at the International Research Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases held in Atlanta this past week. Jose is part of Dr. Paramita Chakrabarty’s lab and Stephan is part of Dr. Ben Giasson’s lab. Congratulations to you both!…

Congratulations to Dr. David Borchelt on receiving the College of Medicine Faculty Council Lifetime Achievement Award.

A University of Florida Health neuroscience researcher has been named chair of the UF College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of physiological sciences following a national search.

Congratulations to our CTRND Students chosen to participate in the University Scholars Program.

Ethan Smith and Quan Vo were winners in the Research Art and Poster Competition, respectively, at UF COM 14 Annual Celebration of Research.

The Michael J. Fox Foundation awarded Drs. Mamais and LaVoie a multi year research grant.