News
August 2024
Congratulations to Mikaley for receiving the 2024 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN)!
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/
February 2023
Congratulations to Peyton and Mikaley for highlights in DC CFAR update!
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
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
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
May 2015