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Addressing Challenges in the Neurosciences at the CUNY School of Medicine |
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A Message from Erica Friedman and Maria Lima
Dean, CUNY School of Medicine, and Associate Dean for Research, CUNY School of Medicine (respectively)
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As we reemerge from the COVID-19 pandemic into a reborn and reinvigorated city and country, it is impossible not to pause and consider the long-lasting changes to the research enterprise we have gone through in the past year. Our investigators at the CUNY School of Medicine and others in the at-large research community had to adapt to interacting differently with each other and colleagues across the country and the world. Yet, it is clear that even in physical isolation, we found creative ways to continue to share our science in lab meetings, scientific conferences, seminars, thesis defenses, patient focus groups, and patient interviews. The pandemic also showed that when there is a robust financial investment in research, we benefit from real-time results contributing to improvements in human health, such as the fast-track development of the COVID-19 tests and vaccines, among many others.
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Repairing Nerves to Cure Paralysis: The Complex Science Behind Neuron Regeneration
John Martin
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Dr. John Martin, a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Biomedical Science at the CUNY School of Medicine has spent most of his career devoted to finding how to cure and treat paralysis. His research focuses on repairing damaged nerve cell connections, and with the help of his team, they are working toward finding that elusive cure to paralysis.
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Understanding The Release of Dopamine and Serotonin to Improve Therapeutics
Gonzalo Torres
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Dr. Torres’ research is primarily concerned with how neurons release dopamine and serotonin to communicate with each other, specifically the alternative release of these neurotransmitters through proteins he identifies as transporters. "By looking at these particular mechanisms we may be developing new opportunities to develop drugs for these conditions — drug addiction and attention disorders.”
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Examining The Effects of COVID-19 on The Brain to Understand Long-term Symptoms
Andreas Kottmann
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While New York was burgeoning into the epicenter of the virus, Dr. Kottmann, Associate Medical Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences at the CUNY School of Medicine, believed his expertise in neurobiology could be useful in examining the effects of COVID-19, and decided to do anything he could to keep his lab open for experimentation.
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Studying Worms to Solve Brain Damage
Itzhak Mano
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Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at the CUNY School of Medicine, Dr. Itzhak Mano is researching several topics related to the accumulation of glutamate, an amino acid that is the main signaling molecule for communication within the nervous system, in addition to neurodegeneration when the glutamate removal process is disrupted. |
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Andrea Velez, Doctoral Program Biology
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Andrea Velez received two degrees from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia because of her interest in amphibians. She obtained her bachelor’s in Biology in 2010, where she studied the phylogeographic of the red-eyed tree frog and how the environment had an influence on the phylogeographic patterns. |
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Awards
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CCNY Research Awards (June 2021)
Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz, Mechanical Engineering, Development of Sustainable Heat Pump for Electrified Transition in Winter Markets, Minority Serving Institutions STEM Research & Development Consortium (MSRDC), 3 years, $707,453
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