Category: News

We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Francesca Gilli for her well-deserved promotion! Dr. Gilli is now an Associate Professor of Neurology AND Microbiology & Immunology.

Congrats to the entire Lab for being awarded an R43 grant. This grant is the result of a collaboration with Abzyme Therapeutic. We will test new Nanobodies for the treatment of chronic progressive neurodegeneration.

Congratulations to Steve Pike for being awarded the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Fellowship! May this be the first of many!!!

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Big Data in the Life Sciences Training Program aims to develop a cadre of researchers that engage in true synergistic collaboration between quantitative and basic biomedical sciences.

Congratulations to Nora Welsh for her Diamond mini-grant award! We look forward to celebrating many more of your successes.

This grant will be used to purchase a stereotaxic instrument for the lab.

Congrats, Francesca, on being named a Co-Director for the new Graduate Program in Integrative Neuroscience at Dartmouth (IND). Francesca and Mike Hoppa in the Department of Biology at Dartmouth will work together to enhance cross-department partnerships in order to build a strong neuroscience community focused on translational research.

A warm welcome to Steve Pike as our newest graduate student! Steve is part of the IND graduate program and will be co-mentored by Dr. Gilli and Dr. Salas. He will be working on a project in computational neuroimmunology, which is a field of neuroscience that encompasses high-throughput genomics and bioinformatics approaches to neuroimmunology.