Trainee Spotlight Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) and Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) Social Science Mixer
Symposium & Seminars BHI Plenary Seminar: Dr. Michael J. Frank — Frontosubthalamic Control Over Motivated Action
Symposium & Seminars Dr. Moses V. Chao to Deliver Keynote at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute Symposium 2025
Faculty Perspectives, Mental Health Brain-Wide Mapping of Mouse Decisions: Insights from Rutgers Expert Dr. Juan Mena-Segovia
Autism, Symposium & Seminars From Diagnosis to Prediction: How Brain Markers Could Personalize Autism Care
BHI Spotlight, Grants and Awards Dr. David Zald Receives NIAAA R21 Grant to Investigate Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Chronic Alcohol Use Disorder
BHI Spotlight, Grants and Awards Dr. William Graves Awarded NIDCD R56 Grant to Advance Personalized Treatments for Acquired Dyslexia
BHI Spotlight, Grants and Awards Dr. Vincent McGinty Receives NIMH RF1 Grant to Uncover How the Brain Makes Complex Choices
Trainee Spotlight Dr. Sang Hoon Kim in Dr. Mi-Hyeon Jang’s Lab Receives NJCCR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Grants and Awards Dr. Kelvin Kwan Receives NIDCD R01 Grant to Study Epigenetic Mechanisms of Cochlear Damage and Repair
Grants and Awards, Trainee Spotlight Congratulations to the 2025-2026 BHI Trainee Travel Award Winners!
BHI Spotlight, Grants and Awards Dr. Natasha O’Brown Named Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Alzheimer’s, BHI Spotlight, Grants and Awards Dr. Luciano D’Adamio’s NanoNewron Awarded $2.5 Million NIH STTR Grant to Advance Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment
Trainee Spotlight Dr. Nirmal Kumar Awarded APDA Postdoctoral Fellowship for Parkinson’s Disease Research
BHI Spotlight, Grants and Awards Dr. Mark Rossi Receives 2025 Rutgers Health Chancellor Award for Excellence in Basic Sciences Research
BHI Spotlight, Cutting-edge Research & Technology, Grants and Awards Dr. Hai Sun Receives NINDS R18 Grant to Develop Innovative Closed-Loop Device for Epilepsy Treatment
BHI Spotlight Rutgers President Tate Visits Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute
Addiction, BHI Spotlight, Diseases & Disorders, Symposium & Seminars Spotlight on Dr. Huda Akil: Leading Neuroscientist to Keynote Rutgers Addiction Research Center Fall Symposium
Grants and Awards Dr. Brianna Altman Receives NIDA K23 Grant to Study Emotional Distress and Cigarette Smoking
Grants and Awards Dr. Luciana Mascarenhas Fonseca Receives NIA R03 Grant to Study Brain Changes in Aging American Indians
Grants and Awards Dr. Brian Daniels Awarded NINDS R01 Grant to Explore Immune Control of Neurotransmission
Grants and Awards Dr. Benton Purnell Awarded NINDS K99 Grant to Study How Seizures and Alcohol Poisoning Disrupt Breathing
Alzheimer’s, Diseases & Disorders, Faculty Perspectives Repurposing Cancer Drugs for Alzheimer’s: Insights from Rutgers Expert Dr. Marc Tambini
Grants and Awards BHI Core member and Associate Director in RARC, Dr. Kristina Jackson, Awarded T32 Grant to Launch Postdoctoral Program in Alcohol Research
Promotions Dr. Bonnie Firestein Promoted to Distinguished Professor and Published Study in Science Advances
Alzheimer’s, Diseases & Disorders, Faculty Perspectives FDA Clears Revolutionary Blood Test for Alzheimer’s: Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center Director Shares Impact and Next Steps
Grants and Awards Dr. Denise Hien Awarded NIDA R01 Grant to Advance Patient-Centered Research on PTSD and Substance Use Disorders
Grants and Awards Dr. Qian Cai Awarded NIA R21 Grant to Study Mitochondrial Role in Tauopathy and Alzheimer’s Disease
BHI in the News Dr. Peng Jiang Publishes Review in Neuron on Human-Rodent Chimeric Brain Models for Studying Brain Disorders
Grants and Awards Dr. Ioana Carcea Awarded Scialog Grant to Study Neural Pathways of Parental Care Under Heat Stress
Grants and Awards Dr. Maria Chiara Manzini Awarded NIMH R21 Grant to Study Sex-Specific Mechanisms in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Grants and Awards Dr. Wayne Fisher Receives Brian A. Iwata Award from the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Symposium & Seminars Drs. Gary Aston-Jones and Anna Konova Deliver Keynote Talks at the Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine Annual Research Symposium
BHI in the News Dr. Mark Rossi Publishes New Study in Nature Communications on Brain Circuit Linking Energy State to Food Cravings
