Department News

Saxton Receives a Merit Award
Judy Saxton, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and Lisa Morrow, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, received a Merit Award for their poster “Medical Co-Morbidity, Medication Use, Depression and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care Settings” at the International Neuropsychological Society annual meeting in February. The poster presented data from Dr. Saxton’s NIA-funded R01 grant “Cognitive Assessment of Elderly Primary Care Patients.”

Chen Recieves R01 Grant Renewal
Jun Chen, MD, Professor of Neurology and a researcher in molecular mechanisms of neuronal cell death associated with cerebral ischemia, has received a competing renewal of his R01 grant “Inducible DNA repair in cerebral ischemia” for another five years.

DeKosky Appointed Chair of the Executive Advising Committee of ISTAART
Steven T. DeKosky, MD, Professor and Chair of Neurology, has been appointed Chair of the Executive Advising Committee of the Alzheimer’s Association’s new International Society to Advance Alzheimer Research and Treatment (ISTAART). In his public statement Dr. DeKosky noted that the society is “the first collegial group that represents all areas of Alzheimer’s disease investigation. ISTAART will give researchers and other professionals a place to connect with each other and share the most current news and information about Alzheimer’s.” Information about ISTAART can be found at www.alz.org/ISTAART.

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