Archive: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

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External Fellowship & Award Recipients
Student Profiles

Sikoya M. Ashburn

NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) F99/K00 “I hope to continue using neuroimaging methods to elucidate the…

January 14, 2020

External Fellowship & Award Recipients
Student Profiles

J. Vivian Dickens

Vivian Dickens is a 4th year MD/PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience. He was awarded a 5-year predoctoral fellowship (F30) from the National Institute…

June 12, 2019

News
Student Profiles

Mysteries of Multiple Sclerosis Progression and Recovery Subject of Doctoral Research

George Melchor Jr. (G’22) researches molecular signatures that could one day lead to developing therapeutics that help in the recovery of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).…

January 18, 2019

External Fellowship & Award Recipients
Student Profiles

Kaela Singleton

Kaela received the 2018 NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award (F99/K00). Congratulations!…

September 18, 2018

External Fellowship & Award Recipients
Student Profiles

Shady El Damaty, Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience

“The stability provides intellectual emancipation, allowing me to pursue a symbiosis of traditionally disparate research fields without the background anxiety of an uncertain…

October 19, 2017

External Fellowship & Award Recipients
Student Profiles

Patrick Malone, M.D.-Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience

2017 National Institutes of Health National Research Service (F30) Recipient “My research interests lie at the intersection of computer science and medicine, so I built a…

October 19, 2017

Faculty
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Researcher Focused on Reversing Stroke-Induced Brain Damage Wins Neurology Prize

Peter Turkeltaub, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology and rehabilitation medicine, and director of the Cognitive Recovery Lab, has been chosen by an international…

March 10, 2017

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Eighth Graders Have Science on the Brain at GUMC

With the help of Bill Rebeck, Ph.D. , and several neuroscience Ph.D. students, the middle school students learned about the human brain in the most authentic way possible — by…

May 11, 2015

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Student Profiles

Georgetown Student to Attend Annual Meeting of Nobel Laureates

Valerie Darcey, a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) at Georgetown, is one of 19 student researchers from the U.S. chosen to attend the 64th…

June 19, 2014

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Fostering a Community of Neuroscientists

The Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) at Georgetown may have a unique view on how future brain scientists should be trained, but one thing sets the program far…

January 29, 2014