Researching — and riding for — MS
Meredith Hartley is part of a team creating new possibilities for treating people with multiple sclerosis. The team of scientists and physicians recently discovered a compound that stimulates...
Tag: In the Lab
Traumatic smoke inhalation, cognition and health disparities
Anita Randolph, Ph.D., wants to improve the quality of life for veterans after active duty. As a doctoral student, she made a major discovery about brain damage in people who’ve suffered...
African Americans and dementia: Culturally informed research
African Americans have a greater risk of dementia than white and non-white Hispanic populations, yet the bulk of dementia research has not explicitly examined African Americans or the heterogeneity...
Lights on the endocannabinoid system: Catching cellular membranes in action
For the pancreas to be healthy and operational, its individual cells need to communicate effectively with one another and synchronize their activities. Aurélien Laguerre, Ph.D., is looking at how...
Dove Spector and the Northwest Native American Center of Excellence
Dove Spector is a senior research assistant with the Northwest Native American Center of Excellence. Her role is to support tribal engagement and help Native American youth envision a future in...
Karen Hudson: Managing the TRAC lab and a deep dive into the teen brain
Adolescence is a time when risky behaviors tend to emerge. Understanding what is going on in the brain when teens are making these decisions might lead to the development of interventions or ways to...
Wafaa BinAli examines the ICU environment, quality of care, and patient safety
Wafaa BinAli, M.N., R.N., is an international student from Saudi Arabia, where very few nurses have doctorates. She came to the United States to conduct research in acute kidney injury at the School...
Disparities: When research results don’t apply to all people
Treatment protocols for prostate cancer in the United States draw heavily from results of the largest-ever randomized controlled trial of treatments for the disease. In that trial, which was...
Birds, song, and how we use language
Sami Friedrich starts her days checking for zebra finch eggs and hatchlings. She is a graduate student in the lab of Claudio Mello, M.D., Ph.D., working to understand the molecular genetic and...
Wandering minds and ADHD: Brittany Alperin unpacks the relationship
How the mind wanders in people with ADHD and how mind wandering is related to impairment — this is the focus of Brittany Alperin’s research. Brittany is a Ph.D. candidate mentored by Joel...