Zach Rosenthal's paper entitled "Electroconvulsive therapy generates a post-ictal wave of spreading depolarization in mice and humans" has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Zach! Ala also contributed to this paper.

 Sophie Hill is being awarded the Brody Family Medical Trust Fund Fellowship in Incurable Diseases from The Philadelphia Foundation and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Congrats, Sophie!

Laura McGarry has received a 2-Year $150,000 Postdoctoral Research Award from the Eagles Autism Foundation! Congratulations to Laura!! This will support her continued work studying convergent and divergent mechanisms of epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder in Dravet...

Sophie Liebergall's paper is out in print!Ndnf Interneuron Excitability Is Spared in a Mouse Model of Dravet Syndromehttps://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1977-23.2024

Melody Cheng (School of Arts & Sciences '26) has been awarded a 2024 College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant in the amount of $1,000. Congratulations to Melody and her postdoc mentor Eric Wengert.

Clara Wang (School of Arts & Sciences '25) has been awarded the prestigious Frances Velay Fellowship, to encourage and advance women in the sciences through summer undergraduate fellowships. This Fellowship provides $5,000 for summer research. Congratulations to Clara...

Yerahm Hong (School of Engineering '26) has been awarded a 2024 Class of 1971 Robert J. Holtz Fund Grant of $1,000 for her research. She will continue her work with graduate student mentor Sophie Liebergall this summer.

Sarah Pham (School of Arts & Sciences'24) has been awarded the Eliot Stellar Award for an outstanding honors thesis presented at the Undergraduate Neuroscience Student Research Symposium. She will be presented with an award in recognition of this honor at the...

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

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