Dr. Dena Dubal has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 Grass Foundation-ANA Award in Neuroscience in recognition of her work on longevity and brain resilience. She will be honored at the American Neurological Associations 140th Annual Meeting in Chicago in September. Read more in Neurology Today.

Dr. Aimee Kao has been awarded the Allen Distinguished Investigator grant for Alzheimer's disease research. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation aims to support novel, creative and ambitious research that may be too risky for traditional funders. Dr. Kao and her co-investigators, Diane Barber and Torsten Wittman from the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology and Matt Jacobson from the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, suspect that small changes of the pH inside cells may promote protein aggregation and neuronal dysfunction in the brain. The ADI grant will allow their team to pursue this idea in the hope of a breakthrough.

Dr. Mo Levin won the the 2015 John R. Graham Senior Clinician Award in recognition of his international leadership in research and education in the field of headache medicine. The award was presented at the recent American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting, where Dr. Levin gave a lecture called Diagnosing Headaches.

The U.S. Department of Defense Alcohol and Substance Abuse Research Program (ASARP) has placed a research highlight on the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) website describing the Institute of Translational Neuroscience (ITN), which is overseen by Dr. Jennifer Mitchell, and also includes descriptions of ongoing research by Dr. Andrew Kayser. The research highlights can be found here.

In an interview with The Atlantic, Dr. Stephen Hauser discussed the goals of the BRAIN Initiative, the future of ethical neuroscience, and a recent report from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues regarding cognitive enhancement, consent, and the use of neuroscience in the legal system.

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