{"id":7983,"date":"2026-08-27T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=7983"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:33:56","slug":"zelda-galdenzi-wins-sfn-trainee-professional-development-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2026\/08\/27\/zelda-galdenzi-wins-sfn-trainee-professional-development-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelda Galdenzi wins SfN Trainee Professional Development Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zelda Galdenzi, a rising 4th-year PhD student of the Xiong Lab, won the SfN Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) that recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and post baccalaureate and postdoctoral scholars who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfn.org\/meetings\/meeting-awards\/trainee-professional-development-award?utm_campaign=5698886-2025%20Awards&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=434411368&amp;utm_content=434411368&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Society for Neuroscience &#8211; Trainee Professional Development Award &#8211; Society for Neuroscience<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/09\/headshot.uchc_.2024-08-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/09\/headshot.uchc_.2024-08-22-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Z. Galdenzi\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7331 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/09\/headshot.uchc_.2024-08-22-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/09\/headshot.uchc_.2024-08-22.jpg 473w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 232px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 232\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/09\/headshot.uchc_.2024-08-22-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Z. Galdenzi\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/09\/headshot.uchc_.2024-08-22-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/09\/headshot.uchc_.2024-08-22.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zelda Galdenzi, a rising 4th-year PhD student of the Xiong Lab, won the SfN Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) that recognizes undergraduate and graduate students and post baccalaureate and postdoctoral scholars who demonstrate scientific merit and excellence in research this year. Society for Neuroscience &#8211; Trainee Professional Development Award &#8211; Society for Neuroscience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-03 20:20:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7987,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7983\/revisions\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}