News from the Lab

Congrats, Jade!

Jade's paper in Cell Reports Medicine was featured in a Preview by Gerald Zamponi here: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/pdf/S2666-3791(24)00048-X.pdf

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Congrats, Melody!

Penn junior undergraduate Melody Cheng is recipient of the 2024 Meyerhoff Summer Fellowship for Neuroscience Research

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Congrats, Zach!

Zach Rosenthal received a 1-Year $50K pilot grant from the Penn ITMAT Translational Biomedical Imaging Center (TBIC) entitled "Brain network dynamics in a rodent model of electroconvulsive therapy."

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Congrats, Sophie!

Sophie Liebergall's first paper in the lab was accepted to Journal of Neuroscience and is available online here: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/03/04/JNEUROSCI.1977-23.2024Sophie was recipient of a 2024 Medical Student Research Paper Prize from Penn for...

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Congrats, Humberto!

Humberto Mestre received an NINDS Research Education Grant (R25) entitled "Spreading depolarizations as drivers of cytotoxic edema formation."

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Congrats, Melody!

Undergraduate Melody Cheng has received the 2023 Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowships (CURF) at Penn for her Fall 2023 research on KCNC1 epilepsy.

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Congrats, Eric!

Postdoctoral fellow Eric Wengert was recipient of the 2023 American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Award.

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Congrats, Yerahm!

Yerahm Hong has been selected as a Rachleff Scholar in Engineering. This program will support research in the lab next summer. Congrats, Yerahm!

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Congrats, Sophie!

Sophie Hill is the recipient of the 2023 Holt Family Epilepsy Neurogenetics Fellowship, becoming our second annual Fellowship recipient. Congratulations, Sophie!

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Congrats Guojie, Julie, Jerome!

Congrats to Guojie, Julie, and Jerome's paper entitled "Targeted blockade of aberrant sodium current in an iPSC-derived neuron model of SCN3A encephalopathy" for being accepted to the journal Brain (Impact Factor 14.5).

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