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ACHEMS 2025

Congratulations to Sarah Sniffen, from the Wesson Lab, for receiving the Don Tucker Memorial Award for outstanding graduate student presentation at the annual Association for Chemoreception Sciences meeting. AchemS is the largest organization dedicated to research in the chemical senses and this award is given to one graduate…

Neurobiology of Disease Journal

Congratulations to Dr. Moehle and his lab for recently having their manuscript titled “Early A-synuclein aggregation decreases corticostriatal glutamate drive and synapse density” accepted in the Neurobiology of Disease journal.

Training Spot Awarded

Congratulations Austin Kratz, from the Russ Lab, for being awarded a training spot on the Diabetes/Bioengineering T32. …

The Barry Goldwater Scholarship &  Stanford Amgen Scholar

Congratulations to Sultan Khanfar, from the Oliveira Lab, for winning The Barry Goldwater Scholarship , the nation’s most prestigious undergraduate award in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering! Scholars are recognized for demonstrating outstanding potential to become future leaders in research. He was also selected for the Amgen…

Catecholamine Society ASPET Travel Award

Congratulations to Joon Paek, from the Urs Lab, who won the 2025 Daniel T. O’Connor Young Investigator Travel Award at the annual ASPET meeting, which was held in Portland, Oregon this year. …

Pain Research & Integrated Neuroscience Symposium Awards

For the Pain Research & Integrated Neuroscience Symposium held on March 31, 2025 at the HPNP Auditorium at the University of Florida, where three of our researchers won awards for their posters. Congratulations to Heather Allen, Ph.D. for being awarded First Place for her poster: “Parabrachial neuropeptide Y…

New Position at Retro Biosciences

Congratulations to Dr. Bird’s Postdoctoral Associate, Ghazaleh Behnammanesh, who recently joined Retro Biosciences as a Cochlear Scientist within the Tissue Reprogramming team, based in Redwood City, California. My work focuses on supporting the development of reprogramming-based rejuvenation therapies targeting age-related hearing loss.

BRAIN Center Poster Awards

Congratulations to Kelena Klippel, who won 1st Place in the BRAIN Center Poster Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Brain Injury Research at UF COM Celebration of Research…

2025 Residency Match

Congratulations to Rafael Abdelnor, who matched in Family Medicine Residency- HCA Florida Ocala Hospital (class of 2025-2028)…