The Duke Neurology Departments clinical, translational, and basic science wings came together last Thursday to discuss their work and collaborate at the Division of Translational Brain Sciences and Neurology Residents first joint poster session.

Research faculty, postdoctoral associates, clinical neurology residents, and other members of the Department presented more than 30 ongoing research projects from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.

Chief Resident Abhi Kapuria, MD, gave a short presentation on a pilot project using augmented reality to improve epilepsy surgery; Assistant Professor Simon Davis, PhD, discussed his ongoing research using transcranial magnetic stimulation to analyze how networks within the brain change over the lifespan.

Other projects examined repurposing a medication developed for HIV for use in dystonia, how mutations in the SNCA gene affect nuclear function in Parkinsons disease, and enhancing neural progenitor cell migration after stroke.

The poster session was the first step towards building a strong collaborative community among the research faculty in our new division of Translational Brain Sciences and the clinical side of the Department, said Ornit Chiba-Falek, PhD, Chief of the Departments new Division of Translational Brain Sciences. By working together, our basic and translational scientists, and our clinicians will bring greater success to our Department, with the whole much greater than the sum of its parts.

Chiba-Falek hopes to build on the success of this event by making the session an ongoing biannual event. The next session is scheduled for this October.

The full list of the posters at the session is as follows:

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Poster session unites Duke Neurology's clinical and basic research wings - Duke Department of Neurology