News from the Lab
Summer Research!
Sarah Pham, Melody Cheng, and Yerahm Hong, will be presenting posters on their summer research at the Penn Center for Undergraduate Research (CURF) 2023 Fall Research Expo on Monday, September 18, from 5:00-8:00 PM. Congrats, Melody and Sarah!
Congrats, Sarah!
Sarah Pham has received a Research Supplement to Promote Diversity from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) entitled "Assessing mechanisms of brain malformation in SCN3A encephalopathy using stem cell-based models." This is a Supplement...
Congrats, Evan!
Penn PGY-3 Neurology Resident and recent NIH NINDS R25 recipient Evan Rosenberg published the magnum opus from his PhD! Evan shows that cannabidiol (CBD ) blocks the effects of an endogenous lipid (LPI) at the receptor GPR55, preventing LPI-mediated effects at both...
Congrats, Sarah!
Penn junior undergraduate Sarah Pham has been awarded the Meyerhoff Summer Fellowship for Neuroscience Research for 2023. She will continue her work with our SCN3A Team to model SCN3A neurodevelopmental disorders in 3D. Congrats, Sarah!
Congrats, Laura and Evan!
Laura Mcgarry and Evan Rosenberg have both received an NINDS Research Education Programs for Residents and Fellows in Neurology and Neurosurgery (R25) Award. Congratulations!
Congrats, Eric!
Congratulations to Eric R. Wengert, Ph.D., a 2nd-year Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab, who will be the 2022-2023 and inaugural recipient of the Holt Family Epilepsy Research Fellowship, supported by a generous gift to the lab by the philanthropic and visionary Holt...
Congrats, Sarah!
Penn junior undergraduate Sarah Pham has been awarded a 2022 Louis H Castor M.D. Undergraduate Research Grant in the amount of $1,000 via the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) for her ongoing research project...
Congrats, Jade!
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow Jade Feng on her poster acceptance to the Basic Science Poster Highlights Session at the American Epilepsy Society 2022 Annual Meeting in Nashville, TV, in December 2022. This poster session features the 40 best posters from over...
Congrats, Sophie!
Congratulations to MD-PhD student Sophie Liebergall for receiving a 2022 Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience to fund her attendance to the 2022 Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA, in November 2022.
Congrats, Melody!
Congratulations to undergraduate research intern Melody Cheng for being awarded the Velay Women’s Science Research Fellowship Program and the Ernest M. Brown, Jr. College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant.