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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dave for being awarded a 2023 McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Small Grants! He work will focus on age-associated mitochondrial differences in response to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, a major cause of morbidity in adults.

Graduate student Kitra Cates has been selected to be a recipient of an F31! This prestigious award will fund Kitra’s work through the rest of her Ph.D. training. Congratulations!

Graduate student Shivani was awarded the Viktor Hamburger Prize for Outstanding Student Presentation at the Joint Retreat of the Developmental, Regenerative & Stem Cell Biology Program, the Department of Developmental Biology, and the Center of Regenerative Medicine. Congratulations, Shivani!

Yesterday, graduate student Lucia was awarded the O’Leary Prize in Neuroscience research for her work on tau isoform expression in directly reprogrammed neurons. The O’Leary Prize is awarded for the most original and impactful neuroscience research in the Washington University in Saint Louis neuroscience community. Congratulations, Lucia!

Congratulations to Yoo Lab graduate student Kitra Cates who was named a Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Medical Science Fellow for 2022! The Olin Fellowships recognize superior accomplishments in biomedical research by doctoral students at Washington University.

Post-Doc Tom Mahan has been selected as a Knight ADRC T32 Fellow! Congratulations Tom!

Dr. Tom Mahan has joined the Yoo Lab as a post-doc. Tom received his Ph.D. at Washington University in Saint Louis in the lab of Dr. David Holtzman. Welcome, Tom!