10/12/2021 Ed gave plenary talk on drug discovery using zebrafish tauopathy models at the 14th Zebrafish Disease Models meeting.

03/17/2021  Vlad’s paper “Mechanism of pacemaker activity in zebrafish DC2/4 dopaminergic neurons” published in The Journal of Neuroscience.

02/27/2021  Meera accepted into the CNUP Summer Undergraduate Research Program.

12/17/2020  Nidhi accepted into the Pitt MPH program.

09/08/2020  Victor, Jianming and Alya’s paper “α-Synuclein amplifies cytoplasmic peroxide flux and oxidative stress provoked by mitochondrial inhibitors in CNS dopaminergic neurons in vivo” published in Redox Biology.

07/28/2020  Ed named recipient of a Clinical Scientist Investigator Award by the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

06/04/2020  Ed named recipient of the UPMC neurology residents’ Clinical Teaching Award at the resident graduation ceremony.

09/18/2019  Ed chaired opening session of 3rd Z-Brain workshop in Toronto.

09/16/2019  Darius received Dean’s Summer Research program Merit Award for his work on automated phenotypic analysis for drug discovery.

05/05/2019  Ed presented work on chemical modifiers of tauopathy at the American Academy of Neurology Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

08/14/2018  Phil named a Roth Scholar.  This prestigious fellowship is awarded competitively to Pitt MD students carrying out scholarly research in the applied neurosciences.

08/01/2018  Our new CurePSP Venture Grant starts today.  The project will focus on evaluating the roles of genes near PSP risk-associated SNPs in the pathogenesis of tauopathy in vivo.

12/01/2017  Enhua’s paper on adult zebrafish responses to changes in ambient illumination published in Zebrafish with accompanying cover picture.

09/29/2017  Ed gave Plenary Lecture on tauopathy models at 3rd Zebrafish for Personalized and Precision Medicine Conference in Toronto.