Vladimir Badovinac, PhD and his research laboratory were recently featured in the American Association of Immunologists for their article, titled The ability of memory CD8 T cell subsets to numerically and functionally recover following whole body irradiation is influenced by their history of cognate antigen exposures.

Featuring: Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA, Nicole Manning, AS, MLT (ASCP), Anna Merrill, PhD, DABCC

August's recipient is Tracy Batley

Featuring: Sahaana Arumugam; Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; Andrew Bellizzi, MD; Dustin Bosch, MD, PhD; Jonathan Davick, MD; Elizabeth Escue, MS; John Harty, PhD; Mohammad Heidarian, Msc; J. Stacey Klutts. MD, PhD; Shravan Kumar Kannan, MS; Jia Luo, PhD; Mahil Rao, MD, PhD; Prerna Rastogi, MD, PhD

Banafshe Dolatyar, PhD, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Marco Hefti, MD’s research laboratory, received the Trainee Professional Development Award (TDPA) from the Society for Neuroscience.

Researchers in Zizhen Kang, PhD’s research laboratory, in collaboration with Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD’s research laboratory, have discovered that oligodendroglial lineage cells (OLCs)—traditionally known for producing myelin—actively contribute to neuroinflammation in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a widely used model for multiple sclerosis (MS).

Mallory Shin, a student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience and a member of Marco Hefti, MD’s research laboratory, received the Kwak-Ferguson Award in neuroscience.

Featuring: Andrew Bellizzi, MD; Dao-Fu Dai, MD, PhD; Nastaran Daneshgar, MD, PhD; Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA; Douglas R. Spitz, PhD

We are pleased to share that Dr. Ashutosh Mangalam, Professor of Pathology, has been awarded an Honorary Professorship by the Old Herborn University Foundation in recognition of his contributions to microbiome research, particularly in the context of neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS).

Featuring: Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; John Harty, PhD; Mohammad Heidarian, MSc; Shravan Kannan, MS; Sergei Syrbu, MD, PhD