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NIH R01 Renewal Co-sponsored by NINDS and NIA Laura Blair was awarded a 5-year research grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health for over $3.4 million to study a risk factor for depressive symptoms in Alzheimer's disease. This work may lead to new approaches to help reduce these symptoms...

Dr. Criado Marrero joins 2-year NSP program Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Marangelie Criado-Marrero has joined the Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP), sponsored by the Society for Neuroscience. This two-year initiative offers online training aimed at career advancement and research processes for...

Dr. Laura Blair promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure! In a unanimous vote by the APT committee, Dr. Blair received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor!

Dr. Blair receives 4-year Merit Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs Dr. Laura Blair was awarded a BLR&D VA Merit Award to investigate the role of FKBP51 in PTSD and stress-related mental illnesses. The major goal of this project is to develop strategies to deplete FKBP51, while deepening...

Dr. Blair joins the Editorial Board of JNC as a Handling Editor The Journal of Neurochemistry (JNC) is centered on the molecular, cellular, and biochemical facets of the nervous system, the development of neurological disorders, and the identification of disease-specific biomarkers. JNC is the...

Dr. Contreras Marciales gives Flash Talk and Poster Presentation The 6 th International Symposium on Pathomechanisms of Amyloid Diseases took place on December 4-6, 2024 in Tallahassee, Florida. Dr. Andrea Contreras Marciales presented a Flash Talk and Poster Presentation on her recent work studying...

Dr. Laura Blair give seminar on lab's efforts to control tau through molecular chaperones Dr. Blair presented on "Chaperone Control of Tau: A Double-Edged Sword” at the virtual Neurodysfunction and Neurodegeneration Seminar Series, which is a joint seminar series for University of Texas Medical...

Ahmed Ramadan, PhD was selected for Flash Talk at Midwest Stress Meeting 2025 Dr. Ahmed Ramadan, a postdoc in the Blair lab, presented a Flash Talk at the 30th Annual Midwest Stress Meeting, which is hosted at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Two PhD students, Abigail Esquivel and Baliqis...

Blair Lab welcomes Medical Sciences PhD student, Brianna Ariza! Brianna completed her BS in Health sciences and MS in Nanotechnology at the University of Central Florida. She joins the Blair Lab for her PhD studies to conduct research focused on molecular chaperone, FKBP51, in tau-mediated neuron...