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  •   Monika’s poster has been selected for a ‘STaR Travel Award’ as well as an ‘Oral presentation’ at the conference 2017 Southern Translational Education and Research Conference set for Sept. 21-22. Way to go!

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  •   Congratulations, Erin Kaiser!  Erin’s poster has been selected for a ‘STaR Travel Award’ for the 2017 Southern Translational Education and Research Conference set for Sept. 21-22.

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  • The West Lab is proud to announce that Hend Rasheed has been awarded the Fall 2017 CURO Research Assistantship! Hend Rasheed is a second year undergraduate majoring in Genetics and minoring in Spanish and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is very excited to be a part of the West Lab, as she finds regenerative medicine extremely interesting. She has helped the graduate students with the…

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  • The West Lab is proud to announce that Zack Jones has been awarded the Fall 2017 CURO Research Assistantship! As an undergraduate researcher, Zack Jones enjoys his work with the TBI Gait and Behavioral project. He especially likes socializing the animals, assisting with gait analysis, and generally gaining experience in the lab. When not focusing on research,…

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  • Congrats, Neil!

    The West Lab is proud to announce that Neil Doshi has been awarded the Fall 2017 CURO Research Assistantship! Neil is a third year undergraduate student pursuing degrees in Biology and Psychology. He has been involved in projects such as the Scaled Traumatic Brain Injury project, the Stroke project, the Nanoparticle Biodistribution Study, and many more. Neil…

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  • Thanks, Kim!

    Thanks for all your hard work this summer, Kim!

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  • Holly Kinder is now a Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience after successfully defending her thesis entitled, “Preclinical Characterization of Traumatic Brain Injury Pathophysiology and Associated Functional Outcomes”. Go Dr. Kinder!

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  •  Congratulations, Emily Baker on successfully defending her thesis entitled, “Preclinical Development of a Neural Stem Cell Therapy for Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury”. Emily is now a Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience. We are all so proud of you!

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  • Vivian Lau graduated and is now a Master of Comparative Biomedical Science, adding to her list of accomplishments including her DVM! Her thesis was entitled: Effects of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Progenitor Cells on Functional Outcome in a Porcine Ischemic Stroke Model.

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  • Madelaine Wendzik’s abstract “Characterization of traumatic brain injury utilizing non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging and histological assessment in a piglet model” has been accepted for a traditional poster presentation at Neuroscience 2017, taking place in Washington, DC, November 11-15.

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