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CurePSP Awards Latest Pathway and Pipeline Grants and Urso Student Fellowship Grants Looking to Take Advantage of Recent Neuroscience Breakthroughs

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木曜日, 9月 28, 2023

NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CurePSP has awarded its latest Pathway and Pipeline Grants and Urso Student Fellowships, totaling over $422,000. Recipients of the grants are: Dr. Kurt Farrell, assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Dr. Blas Couto, researcher at the Institute of Translational and Cognitive Neuroscience (INCyT) in Buenos Aires; Dr. Luana Fioriti, head of laboratory at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, alongside Dr. Carmela Tartaglia, associate professor at the University of Toronto and clinician at the Rossy PSP Centre; and Dr. Joseph B. Rayman, assistant professor of medical sciences at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Recipients of the Urso Student Fellowship Grants are: Hania Qamar (mentor: Dr. Naomi Visanji), a graduate student at the University of Toronto; Hasnat Nuri (mentor: Dr. Stewart Clark), an undergraduate student at SUNY at Buffalo; and Soyeon Park (mentor: Dr. Jonathan Lin), an undergraduate student at Stanford University. The studies will make progress in identifying biomarkers, studying pathways for therapeutics and creating a new database of patients in Argentina.

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  • NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CurePSP has awarded its latest Pathway and Pipeline Grants and Urso Student Fellowships, totaling over $422,000.
  • Recipients of the Urso Student Fellowship Grants are: Hania Qamar (mentor: Dr. Naomi Visanji), a graduate student at the University of Toronto; Hasnat Nuri (mentor: Dr. Stewart Clark), an undergraduate student at SUNY at Buffalo; and Soyeon Park (mentor: Dr. Jonathan Lin), an undergraduate student at Stanford University.
  • The studies will make progress in identifying biomarkers, studying pathways for therapeutics and creating a new database of patients in Argentina.
  • The newest Urso Student Fellowship grants were awarded to students conducting projects that focus on the complex barriers facing research of PSP and CBD.