{"id":8011,"date":"2026-09-14T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:13:37","slug":"jacob-brady-from-trakhtenberg-lab-wins-nih-f30-fellowship-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2026\/09\/14\/jacob-brady-from-trakhtenberg-lab-wins-nih-f30-fellowship-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Brady from Trakhtenberg lab wins NIH F30 Fellowship Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Brady, an MD\/PhD student in the Trakhtenberg lab, has won a highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) F30 fellowship titled &#8220;Transcriptional regulation of axon regeneration by Klf9 inhibition&#8221;. 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 also won the first-place award for his oral presentation at the 2026 UConn Health Graduate Student Research Day, where he presented \u201cNovel Approaches for Experimental Axon Regeneration\u201d. His first-author study, &#8220;Neurodevelopmental miR-135a-1-3p and miR-135b-3p promote long-distance axon regeneration after injury in the central visual pathway,&#8221; was also recently published in Cell Press\u2019s <em>Molecular Therapy Advances<\/em>. Dr. Ephraim Trakhtenberg is the mentor of this F30 fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/42656966\/\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/42656966\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/09\/thriving-student-research-highlighted-during-orientation-week\/\">Thriving Student Research Highlighted During Orientation Week &#8211; UConn Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroregeneration-lab\/\">https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroregeneration-lab\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"J Brady\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8012 aligncenter lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-913x1024.jpg 913w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-768x861.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-1370x1536.jpg 1370w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-1827x2048.jpg 1827w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 268px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 268\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"J Brady\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8012 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-913x1024.jpg 913w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-768x861.jpg 768w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-1370x1536.jpg 1370w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/09\/2026-Oral-Present-Brady_small-1827x2048.jpg 1827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Brady, an MD\/PhD student in the Trakhtenberg lab, has won a highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) F30 fellowship titled &#8220;Transcriptional regulation of axon regeneration by Klf9 inhibition&#8221;. 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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-21 18:09:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011"}],"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=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8017,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions\/8017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}