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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...

Ahmed was selected as one of 14 poster award finalists for Tampa VA Research Day 2025 Dr. Ramadan presented his work on the development of FKBP51-targeting therapies in a one-minute flash talk during the Lightning Round and as a poster during the session that followed.

Congratulations, Dr. Ramadan! Dr. Ahmed Ramadan's work to develop therapies that reduce Hsp90 co-chaperones has been funded by the Alzheimer's Association. This grant will provide $200,000 of support for Ahmed's work over the next three years.

Congratulations, Dr. Esquivel! Abigail Esquivel successfully defended her PhD dissertation on the effects of DnaJB6b on tau accumulation. Her dissertation research focused on screening across molecular chaperone families to identify the most potent regulators of tau seeding, which identified DnaJB6b...

Congratulations, Dr. Blair! Dr. Laura Blair was selected for an Impact Award by the James A Haley Veterans Hospital. This award is to recognize those with sustained VA funding and was presented at VA Research Day.

Dr. Blair was invited to give a Plenary talk on her research and participate in a Panel Discussion for the 2025 Killion Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics Retreat, which was hosted in Birmingham, AL. Killion Center Retreat - Killion Center for Neurodegeneration and...

Baliqis delivers her first seminar at USF! Second year PhD student, Baliqis Olukade, presented her PhD work focused on regulating Hsp90 co-chaperone networks for the regulation of tau accumulation as part of the 2025 Spring Neuroscience Institute Seminar Series.