News

April 2024

Congratulations to Sophia for the meta-analysis article published in eClinicalMedicine!

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00181-0/fulltext

GUMC press release:

https://gumc.georgetown.edu/news-release/perinatal-transmission-of-hiv-can-lead-to-cognitive-deficits/

November 2023

Congratulations to Mikaley for receiving the New Investigator Scholarship award for the prestigious 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2024)!

November 2022

Congratulations to Kyle on the faculty appointment at Georgetown! 

June 2022

Congratulations to everyone for the PLOS ONE paper ("Cingulate transcranial direct current stimulation in adults with HIV"), which is the first treatment study motivated by the neural model of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) we proposed here (Israel et al., 2019). Excellent teamwork!

May 2022

Congratulations to Zimu for winning the best Poster award! 

Congratulations to Omolola for her next journey -- to study neuroscience at the University of Southern California! Way to go, Omolola! 

February 2022

Congratulations to Omolola for being one of the inaugural recipients of the DC CDEIPI Award! Excellent job! 

July 2021

Congratulations to Sophia and Nick for the meta-analysis article published in Neurology!

https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2021/07/12/WNL.0000000000012394

https://twitter.com/gumedcenter/status/1415011937839108097

June 2021

Congratulations to Shiva for the 2021 Institutional Coca Cola Award! Excellent job!


Congratulations to Shiva for the F99/K00 award from NINDS! Amazing work! 


Congratulations to Margarita, Kyle, Nils, and everyone for a nice paper published in Human Brain Mapping! Excellent job!  

May 2021

Congratulations to Margarita and Mo's wedding! 

May 2021

Congratulations to Sophia for the Sister Helen Scarry Award for Commitment to Social Justice! 

https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetownNHS/videos/812602562712403/?t=1200

September 2020

Margarita and John Paul have left the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab and handed on the reins of the HAND and AD studies to the new lab manager, Sam Metzger. Farewell Margarita and John Paul, and congrats Sam!

July 2020

John Paul and Mary got married at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Old Town. Congrats, Mr. and Mrs. Ryan!

July 2020

Margarita and Mo celebrate their love on the day they would have been married had it not been for COVID-19; they wanted to ensure all their international friends and family would be able to attend their wedding. Looking forward to their upcoming marriage!

May 2020

Margarita and Naomi have graduated and now hold Masters in Integrative Neuroscience.

During the virtual ceremony, Margarita also won the program-wide Research Award.

Wooyon has also graduated from the undergraduate program; we're sad you have to leave us but know you're going on to great things! Congrats to all of our stellar lab members!


April 2020

Sophia has been awarded a 2020 Raines Summer Research Fellowship! Congratulations, Sophia! We are very proud of you! 


February 2020

Matt was offered and accepted a spot at Vanderbilt to pursue his PhD in neuroscience! Congratulations, Matt! 


January 2020

Shiva, Kyle and Margarita had their paper, "Low CD4 nadir linked to widespread cortical thinning in adults living with HIV," accepted by Neuroimage: Clinical! Congratulations, Shiva, Kyle and Margarita! 


Lauren, our 2019 high school summer research intern, has been accepted to Georgetown's early admission and will be entering as a freshman Fall 2020. Congratulations, Lauren!

September 19, 2019

Mo proposed to Margarita (and she said yes!). Congratulations, Margarita and Mo!

August 3, 2019

John Paul proposed to Mary (and she said yes)! Congratulations, John Paul and Mary!

March 2019

https://gumc.georgetown.edu/news-release/novel-brain-map-tracks-early-brain-atrophy-from-hiv-infection/

Sarah and Shiva have had their paper accepted by Human Brain Mapping! Congratulations, Sarah & Shiva!

May 2018

Matt has accepted a post grad job at NIH to pursue a career in biomedical field! Congratulations, Matt!

April 2018

Shiva received an Honorable Mention for her first NSF GRFP application! Congratulations, Shiva!

Margarita was accepted into the Masters in Neuroscience program as a part-time student and will maintain her full-time position in lab. Congratulations, Margarita!

March 2018

Caitland was accepted into the highly competitive Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (LSSURP) at Univ of Minnesota! Congratulations, Caitland!

Sarah received a full scholarship (tuition plus stipend) to pursue her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the Mississippi State University! Congratulations, Sarah!

March 2017

Shiva has been accepted into the IPN program here at Georgetown! Congratulations, Shiva!

June 2016

https://gumc.georgetown.edu/news/Georgetown-Alzheimers-Researcher-Has-BrightFocus 

November 2015

http://gumc.georgetown.edu/news/BrainScanRevealsCognitiveDeficitsinOlderCognitivelyNormalHIVIndividuals

May 2015

http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/1e06e02d#/1e06e02d/29