Dr. Rajkumar Verma has been elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA), with the fellowship conferred by the American Heart Association Stroke Council. FAHA is a professional distinction recognizing excellence and sustained contributions in scholarship, education, practice, and service to the American Heart Association. This recognition reflects Dr. Verma’s commitment to advancing stroke […]
Author: Barbara J Paquette
Trakhtenberg Lab Uncovers New Regulators of Neuronal Self-Repair
Recent advances from the Trakhtenberg lab have uncovered promising targetable regulators of neuronal self-repair, which fail to self-activate sufficiently in the injured mammalian CNS and thus require therapeutic activation. To find out more, see the below links to a Cover Page research article in Experimental Neurology, a research report in Brain Research, and research reports […]
Jacob Brady from Trakhtenberg lab wins NIH F30 Fellowship Award
Jacob Brady, an MD/PhD student in the Trakhtenberg lab, has won a highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) F30 fellowship titled “Transcriptional regulation of axon regeneration by Klf9 inhibition”. Jacob studies the molecular mechanisms that could be targeted for repairing injured central nervous system, with the focus on the optic and cortico-spinal/thalamic circuits. Jacob […]