Anuja Ghorpade, Ph.D., will receive the Joseph P. Gilmore Award on Tuesday, March 20 at 2:30 p.m. in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater.
Following the award presentation, Dr. Ghorpade will present a lecture titled, “Glial Inflammatory Responses in Neurodegenerative Diseases; Lessons from HIV-Associated Dementia.” Since 1998, Dr. Ghorpade has been principal investigator on more than $7.4 million in research grants, co-authored more than 60 articles in science journals or book chapters and wrote more than 65 abstracts and preliminary communications.
Dr. Gilmore was professor and chairman of the department of physiology and biophysics from 1970 to 1987. He was funded by the National Institutes of Health for his entire career, supervised numerous graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and published more than 200 scientific papers. The Joseph P. Gilmore Award was established by his department upon Dr. Gilmore’s retirement in 1987 to recognize outstanding research contributions by a faculty member.