News
Publication
Congratulations to John Arena on the acceptance of his paper “Tau immunophenotypes in chronic traumatic encephalopathy recapitulate those of ageing and Alzheimer's disease” in Brain!
Award
Congratulations to John Arena who won the Michael Goldberger Award at the National Neurotrauma Symposium 2019 - the number 1 ranked poster presentation for the symposium. His work was titled “A New Understanding of the Phenotype and Distribution of Tau Pathology in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy”
Publication
Congratulations to Maura Weber and John Arena as co-lead authors on the publication of their paper “CLARITY Reveals a More Protracted Temporal Course of Axon Swelling and Disconnection than Previously Described Following Traumatic Brain Injury” in Brain Pathology!
Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Initiative
We are thrilled to participate in the Post-Traumatic Epilepsy Initiative recently funded by CURE (Citizen’s United for Research in Epilepsy)! This project utilizes a team science approach that aims to expand the knowledge around the types of injuries that predispose the brain to epilepsy.
AANS/CNS Student and Resident Award
Congratulations to John Arena on winning the AANS/CNS Student and Resident Award at the 3rd Join symposium of the International and National Neurotrauma Societies Meeting, 2018 in Toronto!
Top-20 Student Abstract Competition at Neurotrauma
Congratulations to Maura Weber, nominated in the Top-20 Student Abstract Competition at Neurotrauma, 2018 for her work using the novel CLARITY technique to investigate axon degeneration.
President Gutmann Leadership Award
Congratulations to Maura Weber who was awarded the President Gutmann Leadership Award 2018!
PACT Summer Internship
We welcome Penn undergraduate student, Danielle Harris who was awarded the PA Consortium of Traumatic Brain Injury (PACT) Summer Internship.
Publication
Our recent paper “Mechanical Disruption of the Blood Brain Barrier Following Experimental Concussion” was published in Acta Neuropathologica!