Neuroscience Initiative Director Patrizia Casccia Weighs in on Neurotoxins in Baby Food
Posted on January 16, 2020
“Early life exposure may have long-term consequences,” says Casaccia. [...]
Seeding Science
Posted on December 12, 2019
ASRC Seed Grants Helped These CUNY Scientists Move from Ideas to Funded and Published Research [...]
Neuroscience Initiative Professor Jia Liu Featured on eLife Podcast
Posted on November 21, 2019
Professor Liu spoke on her research exploring the potential role of glial cells in stress tolerance. [...]
Recent ASRC Collaborative Study Featured by SUM
Posted on November 20, 2019
SUM highlights research, creativity and innovation across CUNY. [...]
Recent Study on Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Disease Progression in MS Highlighted by CDMRP
Posted on September 5, 2019
Patrizia Casaccia and her colleagues have been studying how extrinsic and cell intrinsic factors modulate neuronal bioenergetics, potentially contributing to MS progression. [...]
Researchers Identify Glial Cells as Critical Players in the Brain’s Response to Social Stress
Posted on August 13, 2019
The findings, detailed in an “eLife” journal paper, may explain why some individuals become depressed and others are resilient in the face of adverse experiences such as bullying or conflict. [...]
Recent ASRC Collaborative Study Featured by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Posted on July 20, 2019
The NMSS highlighted the recent paper in “Brain”, which identifies molecular mechanisms causing neuronal damage in multiple sclerosis patients with progressive clinical deterioration [...]
Differences in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of MS Patients May Hold the Key to Therapies That Halt Progression
Posted on July 15, 2019
A new paper in “Brain” identifies molecular mechanisms causing neuronal damage in multiple sclerosis patients with progressive clinical deterioration [...]
ASRC Researcher Duke Shereen Quoted in The New York Times
Posted on July 1, 2019
Shereen weighed in on a new Nature Physics paper outlining how a group of researchers were able to use MRI and a scanning tunnel microscope to image on the atomic scale. [...]
ASRC Neuroscience Initiative Director Patrizia Casaccia Receives the Prestigious NINDS R35 Award from the National Institutes of Health
Posted on May 15, 2019
The highly competitive eight–year research grant will provide up to $9.17 million to fund innovative research on the molecular signals regulating glial cell function in the healthy brain New York, May 1, 2019 – Patrizia Casaccia, founding director of the Neuroscience Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at The Graduate Center, CUNY andRead More [...]
