Academic Year 2015

Manu Sharma (PI)
Alzheimer's Association
Tau Proteostasis by Cysteine String Protein-alpha (CSP-alpha)

Jonathan Victor (PI)
NIH R01EY007977 (competitive renewal)
Central Processing of Visual Information

Jacqueline Burre (PI)
American Parkinson's Disease Association
Aging increases the aggregation-prone cytosolic pool of alpha-synuclein

Manu Sharma (PI)
AFAR New Investigator Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Tau Proteostasis by Hsc70 Co-Chaperones

Costantino Iadecola (PI) 
NIH 1R37NS089323 (Javits Award) 
Hypertension and neurovascular dysfunction  

Ping Zhou (PI)
NIH 5R01NS067078 (competitive renewal)
Role of Prohibitin in Ischemic Brain Injury 

Esteban Fridman (PI)
NIH 1R21NS093268
Specification of dopaminergic synaptic disorders severe brain injury 

Giovanni Manfredi (PI)
NIH 1R01NS093872
Metabolic profiling of sporadic ALS patients 

Teresa A. Milner (PI)
NIH 2R01 DA 008529-21 (competitive renewal)
Stress-opioid interaction in hippocampus

Conor Liston (PI)
Hartwell Foundation 
Neuroimaging biomarkers in autism spectrum disorders 

Makoto Ishii (PI
Bright Focus Foundation 
Pathological role of amyloid-beta on adipocyte hormone signaling

Jacqueline Burre (PI) 
The American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation
Dysfunction of STXBP1 in infantile epileptic encephalopathies

Jacqueline Burre (PI)
Leon Levy Foundation Grant
Function and Dysfunction of Synucleins at the Synapse

Wenjie Luo (PI)
Cart Foundation
Investigating the role of microglia in tau clearance in Alzheimer’s disease

Jordi Magrane (PI)
The Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA)
Approaches to correct mitochondrial abnormalities and synaptic pathology in frataxin-deficient sensory neurons

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