Success for Researchers
Congratulations to the 2013 Clinical Research Fellowship Recipients
American Brain Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowships
Funded by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Brain Foundation.
Brian Wainger, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mentor: Dr. Clifford Woolf
Title: "Blocking Hyperexcitability and Improving Survival in ALS Motor Neurons"
April Levin, MD
Boston Children's Hospital
Mentor: Dr. Charles Nelson
Title: “Identifying Early Biomarkers for Autism Using EEG Connectivity”
Jasmeer Chhatwal, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mentor: Dr. Reisa Sperling
Title: “Functional network disruption in aging, autosomal dominant and late-onset AD”
Michael Wilson, MD
Boston University School of Medicine
Mentor: Dr. W. Paul Duprex
Title: "Multimodal Imaging of Antibody-Mediated Therapy for Japanese Encephalitis Virus"
Michael Fox, MD, PhD
Massachusettes General Hospital
Mentor: Dr. Alvara Pascual–Leone
Title: “Use of resting–state networks to predict the ideal stimulation sites for TMS and DBS”
Michael Ward, MD, PhD
Gladstone Institututes/UCSF Dept. of Neurology
Mentor: Dr. Li Gan
Title: “Investigation of nuclear trafficking dysfunction in an ocular mouse model of frontotemporal lobar degeneration.”
Rizwan Akhtar, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Dr. Virginia Lee
Title: “Investigation of auto–antibodies to alpha-synuclein as novel biomarkers in Parkinson's disease”
Paul George, MSE, MD, PhD
Stanford University
Mentor: Dr. Gary Steinberg
Title: “The A Tissue Engineering Approach to Electrically Stimulate Neural Stem Cells to Enhance Stroke Recovery”
Lawrence Brass Postdoctoral Fellowship in Stroke
Funded by ther American Brain Foundation, the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association
Clotilde Balucani, MD, PhD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Mentor: Steven R. Levine, MD, FAHA, FAAN
Title: “The Rapid vascular Ultrasound evaluation and serial Neurological assessment in minor stroke and rapidly improving stroke”
Susan S. Spencer Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Epilepsy
Funded by the American Brain Foundation, the American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation
Robert Kotloski, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mentors: Dr. Thomas Sutula
Title: “Epileptogenesis after traumatic brain injury”
Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
Funded by the American Brain Foundation and the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation
Glykys Joseph, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mentors: Dr. Katherine Sims
Title: “Characterization of hyperexcitability and epileptogenesis in mice carrying the common juvenile NCL (CLN3) mutation”
Clinical Research Training Fellowships in Neurotoxins
Funded by the Allergan Foundation
Nada Hindiyeh, MD
UCI Medical Center
Mentors: Dr. Robert Cowan
Title: “Validating a Diagnostic Tool for Chronic Migraine”
Veronica Bruno, MD
University of Toronto
Mentors: Dr. Janis Miyasaki
Title: “A Study of the Utility of Botulinum Toxin Type A in the Treatment of Pain in Advanced PD and Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease”