How do glia sculpt neural circuits and how does dysregulation of glia contribute to disease? Glia make up more than half of the cells in the human brain, but we are just beginning to understand the complex and multifactorial role glia play in health and disease. Glia are decidedly dynamic in form and function. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the dynamic nature of glia is imperative to developing novel therapeutic strategies for diseases of the nervous system that involve aberrant gliogenesis.
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Paul Wender
Talk Title: siRNA complexation, delivery, and release by new biodegradable molecular transporters
Event: 243rd American Chemical Society National Meeting
Home Department: Dermatology
Faculty Advisor: Anthony Oro
Talk Title: Dual Degradation Signals Control Gli1 Protein Stability and Basal Cell Carcinoma Formation
Event: Society for Investigational Dermatology 2006
Awarded in 2022
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisors: Bianxiao Cui (Chemistry) and Jun Ding (Neurosurgery and Neurology & Neurological Sciences)
Awarded in 2020
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Nicholas Melosh (Materials Science & Engineering) and Geoffrey Gurtner (Sugery – Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery)
