Students honored for outstanding research at NBAAD Symposium

May 20, 2024 • faculty, P&N, Research, SBS, students

College of Biomedical and Translational Sciences students were honored for outstanding research at the 2024 Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Symposium at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth on May 14.

The Symposium is funded by a T32 Training Grant in the Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging. In addition to the annual symposium, the training grant funds fellowships for PhD students at HSC who are pursuing related research.

HSC’s T32 Fellows presented their research at the NBAAD Symposium. Three of the fellows were awarded the James W. Simpkins Awards for outstanding research presentations.

1st place: Kumudu Subasinghe
Runner up: Savanna Smith
Runner up: Rajiv Rangan

The symposium also featured a keynote address by Dr. C’iana P. Cooper, Staff Scientist at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging, titled “Memory and Cerebellum Anatomy in Aging: A Comparative Analysis.”