Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience

Skate-a-thon for Parkinson’s brings in more than $20,000

More than 500 skaters participated in 24-hour event.

Jan 29, 2019

Skaters showed up in force for the Skate-a-thon for Parkinson's.

Lookin’ at U: Julie Ditter

Going to Las Vegas to watch NCAA basketball tourney is a family affair for PEN administrator.

Jan 10, 2019

Julie Ditter. Photo courtesy of Katie Ditter.

New training program to create ‘bilingual’ scientists

Innovative new Ph.D. program will prepare researchers to tackle diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis.

Oct 25, 2018

Neuroimmunology of Disease Training Program co-chairs Daniel Monaghan, Ph.D., and Howard Gendelman, M.D., center, meet with, from left, students Brandon Lew, Jonathan Herskovitz and Lara Bergdolt.

Colloquium on emerging issues in neuroHIV, substance abuse

Shilpa Buch, Ph.D., and Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D., organized the Oct. 23-24 event.

Oct 19, 2018

From left, Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D., and Shilpa Buch, Ph.D.
Alex Wiesman, a graduate research assistant in the lab of Tony Wilson, Ph.D.

Awards recognize research in aging diseases

Kelly Stauch, Ph.D., receives the Vada Kinman Oldfield Alzheimer’s Research Fund Award and Katherine Olson, Ph.D., receives the Nancy and Ronald Reagan Alzheimer’s Scholarship Fund Award.

Apr 27, 2018

Brady Sillman first place oral presentation at 49th Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum

Chemically modified drug shows promise for HIV treatment, elimination

UNMC discovery reported in Nature Communications.

Feb 6, 2018

The four key researchers on the breakthrough that could eventually lead to an HIV cure were (left-right) Benson Edagwa, Ph.D., Aditya Bade, Ph.D., Brady Sillman, and Howard Gendelman, M.D.