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Li Awarded the NIH Innovator Award
On Oct. 8, 2024, Dr. Hongjie Li was awarded the NIH Innovator Award. This award is given to individuals who have unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. Investigators are encouraged to think beyond traditional bounds and to pursue trailblazing ideas in any area of research relevant to NIH’s mission to advance knowledge and enhance health. The High-Risk, High-Reward Research program awarded Dr. Li $2.4 million for his research project.
Zheng Collaborates with Center for NextGen Therapeutics to Help Match Researchers to Molecules
On Oct. 1, 2024, Dr. Jin Wang tells us what inspired and shaped the Center, its goals, and what it offers to researchers. He attributes Dr. Hui Zheng’s collaboration as part of his early work involving a small model inhibitor project that could be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more about the Center for NextGen.
Catic Selected for Image of the Month: Aging Signs
On Sept. 2, 2024, Dr. Andre Catic had his research images selected as the month's image. The image is time-lapse microscopy showing age-associated changes that occur in the nuclear envelope of a mouse fibroblast. The researchers visualized lamin A (red), a protein that is part of the support structure of the nucleus. View the images.
Catic Uncovers the Secret of Long-Lived Stem Cells
On May 9, 2024, Dr. Andre Catic published in WorldHealth.Net his investigation on the enzyme cyclophilin A, which is produced in large amounts in HSCs, which is key for these cells to retain their regenerative potential and avert the effects of aging. Read more about his discovery.
Samuel and Huang Selected for Image of the Month
On April 2, 2024, Dr. Melanie Samuel’s and Dr. Kang-Chieh Huang's research image was selected as the month's image. The image is a human retinal organoid, a model of the human retina grown in the lab from pluripotent stem cells. Cell nuclei are shown in blue, green shows cells with an early retinal marker, and the red label marks dividing cells. View the images.
On Nov. 7, 2023, Dr. Melanie Samuel’s and Dr. Kang-Chieh Huang's research image was selected as the month's image. The image is a microscope image of the connections among crucial neurons within the visual pathway in the thalamus of the brain. Neuronal projections (in red, marking neuron-specific cytoskeletal proteins) initiated in the cell body connect individual neurons (tagged in green with the neuronal biomarker NeuN). View the images.