Stroke remains a leading cause of disability in the United States. Stroke is a heterogeneous multifactorial disorder. Prior attempts at developing new therapies have failed in clinics due to imperfect target validation, unrealistic therapeutic windows and lack of age appropriate models. Thus, there is an opportunity and a need to identify new medical treatment for […]
Dr. Zhao-Wen Wang received a new award of 2.83 million from NIH
Melatonin is a sleep-promoting hormone acting through melatonin receptors. However, the downstream molecular target(s) for its sleep-promoting effect has remained elusive. In a recent study from Dr. Wang’s lab (Niu et al., PNAS 117: 25128-25137, 2020), it was found that melatonin promotes sleep in C. elegans by activating the BK channel (also known as SLO-1 in worms […]
Pearl Sutter receives prestigious NRSA F30 Fellowship
Pearl Sutter, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Stephen Crocker, has received a prestigious and highly competitive NRSA F30 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Pearl is a fourth year MD/PhD dual degree student. Pearl has been studying the immunological underpinnings of a rare and incurable neurological disease called Globoid […]