Barrow receives a $105,600 grant to study neurofibromatosis
The Department of Defense Neurofibromatosis Research Program recently awarded Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center a ...one-year exploratory and developmental grant worth $105,600. ... ... "This grant will help us study a new area of research in neurofibromatosis and might help us find a new target for treatment of NF...Barrow receives two grants worth a total of 900,000 from the ABRC
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Young-Huen Jee, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, recently received a $50,000 fellowship award from the Hob Family Foundation to support her research of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)....... Dr. Jee's research focuses on action mechanisms of the MS drug Copaxone in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE), a form of MS. When she joined Barrow...Barrow Neurological Institute neuroimmunology fellow receives $135,000 fellowship award
Ruolan Liu, M.D., Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, received a three-year career development fellowship of $135,000 from the Muscular Dystrophy Association. This prestigious award will fund Dr. Liu's investigation of natural-killer-T (NKT) cell treatment for Myasthenia Gravis (MG) and other autoimmune diseases.... ...Since joining Barrow's Neuroimmunology...Discovery at Barrow localizes visual awareness
How do you know when you see something? Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix have made a breakthrough discovery that puts scientists closer to understanding how visual awareness is generated. ... ...Stephen Macknik, Ph.D., a researcher in the Neurosurgery and Neurobiology departments at Barrow, and his colleagues have discovered that awareness of simple visual objects is genera...Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute resolve 40-year eye movement, visibility controversy
For more than 40 years, a scientific controversy has raged over whether microsaccades, rapid eye movements that occur when a person's gaze is fixated, are responsible for visibility. ... ...Research conducted at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix has recently resolved the debate, establishing that microsaccades are indeed responsible for driving 80 percent of our visual experience.... ...Ev...Barrow researcher receives $965,000 grant to study nicotine and smoking cessation
Ronald J. Lukas, Ph.D., a scientist for Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, was awarded a $965,000 grant to fund his research on nicotine and nicotine dependence. He was also selected to be an investigator for a million-dollar nicotine study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).... ...Lukas will use the $965,000 grant, given by a priv...