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News and Highlights
>> Congratulations to Kira Evitts on passing her general exam and becoming a PhD Candidate in the UW Bioengineering PhD program! [May 2024]
Celebrating with Kira (second from right) after her general exam.
>> Fred Yeboah, MCB PhD candidate, at his doctoral hooding ceremony with Dr. Jessica Young! Congratulations on your successful thesis defense, Fred! [June 2023]
>> Congratulations to Dr. Swati Mishra on her promotion to Acting Instructor! [2023]
>> Congratulations to Kira Evitts, Bioengineering PhD student, whose paper "Amyloid beta peptides (Aβ) from Alzheimer’s disease neuronal secretome induce endothelial activation in a human cerebral microvessel model" was accepted in the journal Neurobiology of Disease. This is a collaborative project with Yu Jung Shin and Professor Ying Zheng at ISCRM. [2023]
>> Members of the Young Lab celebrated Dr. Jessica Young's promotion to Associate Professor! Congrats to Jessica, from the Young lab team!
[August, 2022]
>> Congratulations to Dr. Allison Knupp, who successfully defended her PhD thesis!
[November, 2021]
(Allison third from left)
Grants and Awards
>>The Young lab has received an R21 Grant: "Elucidating molecular pathways that drive brain aging and incorporating them in to hiPSC-derived neural cell models."
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>>The Young lab has received an R01 Grant: "Understanding endolysosomal dysfunction in AD with a focus on hiPSC-derived neurons and microglia."
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>> The Young lab was awarded a grant from the Cure Alzheimer's Fund to understand the role of the AD gene SORL1 in neuron-microglia communication.
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>> The Young lab has received a grant from the Alzheimer's Association to test how loss of the AD risk gene SORL1 affects neurons and microglia and enhancing the pathway via small molecules might be therapeutic. [2023]
>> The Young lab has received an R21 grant to study the loss of Tau function in neurons.
Read more here! [2023]
>> Congratulations to Fred Yeboah for being nominated by the MCB program for the UW Graduate School Medal
[2023]
>> Congratulations to Andy Williams, PhD for receiving a position on the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Training Program Training Grant!
[Summer, 2022]
>> Congratulations to Eiden Brewer on the Mary Gates Undergraduate Research Scholarship​
[Spring/Summer 2022]
(Eiden, middle)
>> Congratulations to Swati Mishra, PhD for receiving the UW ADRC Development Grant (Defining the role of endo-lysosomal dysfunction in human microglia harboring Alzheimer’s disease (AD)- predisposing mutations in a 2-dimensional monolayer and a novel 3-dimensional cerebral organoid model system)
[2022-2023]
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(Swati, middle)
>> Congratulations to Kira Evitts on the Training Grant Fellowship (Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging)
[2021]
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(Kira, left)