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URI team creates tabletop blast device to study long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury
Molecular biologists pair with mechanical engineers for URI-built experimental model offering new way to look at TBI-related neurodegenerative disease
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Professor Jaime Ross finds sex-dependent cognitive decline similar to that found in humans.
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The joint initiative will support innovative interdisciplinary, collaborative projects in neuroscience at URI.
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Read about Ryan Institute research on Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging in the Summer 2024 issue of URI Magazine.
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Assistant Professor Claudia Fallini hopes the research will lead to new Alzheimer’s disease insights and improved stroke outcomes.
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The project will help shed light on whether there may be a way to reduce or eliminate the risk.
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Assistant Professor Katharina Quinlan is principal investigator on two new grants that could repurpose existing therapeutics to treat the disorder.
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Assistant Professor Jaime Ross and her lab report surprising findings on the impact of short-term microplastics exposure through drinking water.
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William Van Nostrand, co-executive director of the George & Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at the Univeristy of Rhode Island, is part of a team awarded a five-year, $8 million grant from the prestigious Leducq Foundation.
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