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Category: Research News

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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URI study links microplastic exposure to Alzheimer’s disease in mice

Professor Jaime Ross finds sex-dependent cognitive decline similar to that found in humans.

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Ryan Institute researchers are part of breakthrough studies on “mature” neurons, epigenetics in aging

Three Ryan Institute faculty are co-authors on breakthrough studies at Northwestern University and Harvard Medical School.

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Cytoskeleton Keys

New faculty member Claudia Fallini investigates how modulation of the cytoskeletal protein actin could potentially be an ALS therapy.

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Historic gift benefits neurodegenerative disease research

Tom and Cathy Ryan give $24 million to support Ryan Institute research, as part of historic $35 million gift to URI.

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