November 29, 2023 – Geetika presented a talk at the International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias (ISFTD) Early and Mid Career Online Symposium
November 15, 2023 – Welcome rotation student, Don Ashley Malabana!
October 14, 2023 – Joel presented a poster at the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) Midwest Regional Conference in St. Louis
August 17, 2023 – Welcome rotation student, Jenny Brown!
May 29, 2023 – Our lab posted a preprint on bioRxiv on the biochemical, biomarker, and behavioral characterization of the GrnR493X mouse model of frontotemporal dementia
May 18, 2023 – Spencer presented a poster at the ASPET conference in St. Louis
March 25, 2023 – Andy presented a poster at the CSHL Nucleic Acid Therapies meeting in New York
December 2, 2022 – Andy presented invited seminar at the CERVO Brain Research Centre in Quebec, Canada
September 14, 2022 – Welcome rotation student, Amanda Titus!
August 2, 2022 – Geetika presented a poster at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in San Diego
July 5, 2022 – Welcome rotation student, Matthew Luetzen!
January 20, 2022 – Andy presented at the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at Washington University in St. Louis
January 13, 2022 – Our lab posted our first preprint on bioRxiv, reporting that antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) targeting a miR binding site can increase progranulin levels in cells and in vivo
November 19, 2021 – Geetika won the poster competition at the 3rd Annual Henry and Amelia Nasrallah Center for Neuroscience Research Symposium at Saint Louis University. Congrats Geetika!
June 21, 2021 – Welcome to our new technician, Spencer Jones!
December 8, 2020 – Our lab with collaborators Dr. Sue Farr and Dr. Fenglian Xu received a pilot grant from the Henry and Amelia Nasrallah Center for Neuroscience (CNR) at Saint Louis University to study the “Mechanisms of Progranulin-Mediated Cognitive Enhancement”
September 1, 2020 – Welcome to Subhashis Banerjee, who joins our lab as a Research Assistant Professor!
August 1, 2019 – Welcome to our new graduate student, Monica Pavlack!
August 1, 2019 – The lab received our first NIH R01 grant to test antisense oligonucleotides for frontotemporal dementia
June 24, 2019 – Our lab joined the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders
June 3, 2019 – Welcome to our summer medical student, Sid Mirgati!
May 22, 2019 – Andy presented the lab’s research at the Bluefield Project to Cure FTD meeting in San Francisco
March 1, 2019 – The lab received a pilot grant from the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences at Washington University to test antisense oligonucleotides for frontotemporal dementia
January 16, 2019 – Asef presented his research at the AOA Medical Student Research Forum at SLU
January 1, 2019 – Our lab joined the Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia
November 19, 2018 – Welcome to our new staff scientist, Geetika Aggarwal! Geetika recently completed her postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt, where she studied the metabolic enzymes paraoxonase-1 and phospholipase D
November 5, 2018 – Andy presented the lab’s research at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego
September 20, 2018 – Asef presented his summer research at SLU
August 29, 2018 – Our paper describing the protective role of progranulin in hematopoietic cells in atherosclerosis was accepted for publication in Atherosclerosis
July 22, 2018 – Andy presented the lab’s research at the Alzheimer’s Association meeting in Chicago
June 19, 2018 – Andy presented the lab’s research at the Keystone “Advances in Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Therapy” meeting in Keystone, CO
June 1, 2018 – Welcome to our new technician, Denise Smith!
May 29, 2018 – Welcome to our summer medical student, Asef Aziz!
March 20, 2018 – Our paper describing a new mouse model of progranulin-deficient FTD was accepted for publication in PNAS
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