Dr. Marco Hefti received a five-year NIH R01 award entitled “A non-canonical role for tau in early human brain development” from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The award totals $561,007 and the project starts May 1, 2024 and concludes February 28, 2029.

Kimberly Fiock successfully defended her doctoral thesis in early April and became the first student to graduate from the Experimental Pathology Ph.D. Program. Kimberly’s thesis is entitled Drivers of Astrocytic Tau Pathology in 4R Tauopathies. She performed her dissertation work in the laboratory of Dr. Marco Hefti where she used a combination of human tissue and human-derived stem cell models to answer questions about how the tau protein contributes to different types of neurodegenerative diseases.

Mallory Shin is awarded a Fall, 2023 Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship. The Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship is awarded to students to recognize their distinguished academic achievements and to provide protected time for research. Mallory is a Ph.D. candidate in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience working in the laboratory of Dr. Marco Hefti.

he Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship is awarded to students to recognize their distinguished academic achievement and to provide protected time for research. Kimberly is a PhD candidate in the Experimental Pathology program working in the lab of Dr. Marco Hefti. Her dissertation uses a combination of human tissue and human-derived stem cell models to answer questions about how the tau protein contributes to different types of neurodegenerative diseases.

Kimberly Fiock, an Experimental Pathology PhD student in Dr. Marco Hefti’s laboratory, has received a Women & Diversity award from the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP).

Marco Hefti received the Supervisor of the Year Award for 2021 by the Pomerantz Career Center at the University of Iowa...

Dr. Marco Hefti is one of two Iowa Neuroscience Institute Junior Research Program of Excellence awardees...

This grant builds on preliminary data from Dr. Hefti’s laboratory showing...

Kimberly Fiock (M.S. in Pathology) recently defended her thesis entitled "The Developmental Expression and Regulation of Tau"...

Amy Gottschalk, a University of Iowa undergraduate student working in Dr. Marco Hefti's laboratory, has won the University of Iowa Student Employee of the Year Award in the Science, Health and Engineering category...

Marco Hefti received a five-year NIH K23 award entitled “Novel tau-based diagnostics for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic injury” from the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS)...

Dr. Marco Hefti received a KL2 award entitled “Novel Tau-Based Diagnostics for Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury”...