Congratulations goes to MD/PhD student, Divine Nwafor! Divine secured a first place poster award at the APSA Northeast Regional Conference! His poster was entitled, ” Tissue-Nonspecific Alkaline Phosphatase Plays a Pivotal Role in Maintaining Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cell (BMEC) in a Model of Acute Systemic Inflammation.
The conference was held from January 9-11, 2021.
Congratulations to Allison Brichacek, who was recently selected to attend the St. Jude National Graduate Student Symposium to be held virtually from April 6-8, 2021. Invitation to the NGSS is very competitive and invitations are extended to a select group of Ph.D. students who have been nominated by a faculty member from their university and selected by a faculty review committee at St. Jude. Great job, Allison!
Divine recently received a travel award to the annual American Physician-Scientist Association (APSA) meeting held in Chicago, IL on April 3-5, 2020. This meeting attracts physician-scientists and aspiring physician-scientists from across the nation. Great job!
Congratulations to Divine Nwafor on his first-author publication: Loss of tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP) enzyme activity in cerebral microvessels is coupled to persistent neuroinflammation and behavioral deficits in late sepsis.
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Congratulations to Allison Brichacek on her first-author publication: Systemic inhibition of tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase alters the brain-immune axis in experimental sepsis.
Two recent accolades for Cat Gambill:
Divine was selected to give a graduate student flash talk entitled, “Polymicrobial infection exacerbates neuroinflammation and worsens spatial memory in a female Alzheimer’s disease transgenic mouse model” at WVU Health Sciences’ 54th Annual Van Liere Research Day.
Allison Brichacek received the Jennifer Gossling Scholarship from the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology.
Allison’s research on the role of gut-brain-microbiota axis in stroke was featured in the WVU News. This story was also featured in several science news outlets such as :
Allison Brichacek was named to the NIH T32 on Stroke and its Co-morbidities
Divine Nwafor received a Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Travel Grant
Divine Nwafor received the Stevenson Scholarship for Behavioral Neuroscience research
Cat Gambill and Divine Nwafor were named to the NIH T32 on Stroke and its Co-morbidities
Allison Brichacek and Divine Nwafor attended the Barriers of the CNS Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference
Candice Brown Lab @ WVU 