CTRND faculty member Dr. Yona Levites has a paper published in the April 22, 2015 edition of The Journal of Neuroscience. Dr. Levites comments, “A study looking at anti-amyloid properties of a naturally occurring human monoclonal antibody. This is a first time we were able to demonstrate that an antibody cloned from…
Dr. Sylvain Doré has been named a Fellow of the American Heart Association for his research on Stroke. Please join the CTRND in congratulating Dr. Doré for this honor conferred by the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association…
Jenna Leclerc, an MD-PhD student, and her CTRND faculty member adviser Dr. Sylvain Doré have had an article published in the January 12th issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (“PNAS”). The research focused on genetic predictors of hemorrhagic stroke complications. You…
Several member labs of the CTRND are recruiting Postdoctoral Associates. Please see the Research Opportunites page for more information. Please check back often as more positions are expected to be open soon.
Dr. Edgardo Rodriguez has joined the faculty of the CTRND. Dr. Rodriguez joins us from the University of Iowa.
In work supported by the ALS association, CTRND researchers have had a paper published in Acta Neuropathologica in which they shed light on a potential mechanism for the spread of ALS through the Central Nervous System. This provides a potential target for the development of a gene therapy for the…
CTRND Post-doctoral fellow, Jacob Ayers, Ph.D., under the direction of CTRND faculty Paramita Chakrabarty, Ph.D., Yona Levites, Ph.D., David Borchelt, Ph.D., and Todd Golde, M.D., Ph.D., has published a study…
CTRND faculty members Jada Lewis and Benoit Giasson along with UF graduate student Rachel Bailey and Jason P. Covy of Stanford University have reported in Acta Neuropathologica their discovery of a biological mechanism linking Parkinson’s disease to Alzheimer’s disease. Their NIH/NINDS funded research focused on the LRRK2 (“lerk two”) enzyme…
Dr. Todd Golde is among a group of researchers from UF, The Mayo Clinic Florida, and The Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle who have received a grant from the NIH and NIA to investigate potential therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease. …
Congratulations are due to Dr. Sylvain Doré for his promotion to the rank of Professor in recognition of his contributions to the students of the University of Florida!…
