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Collaboration Between SUNY Downstate and UNESCO, "The Risks and Challenges of Neurotechnologies for Human Rights"
Collaboration Between SUNY Downstate and UNESCO, "The Risks and Challenges of Neurotechnologies for Human Rights"
Dr. Salvador Dura-Bernal, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, is co-editor and collaborator on the interdisciplinary publication titled "The Risks and Challenges of Neurotechnologies for Human Rights", with The University of Milano-Bicocca, and UNESCO. The publication is comprised of two sections. The first section discusses the developments and potential applications of neurotechnologies today, featuring Dr. Dura Bernal's introductory article, "State of the art and challenges of neurotechnology." The second features 7 contributions that discuss the ethics and human rights risk of their non-medical applications. Read the full book here. UNESCO’s Assistant Secretary General thanked SUNY Downstate several times during the launch event for helping them research and bring awareness to this important human rights topic. Watch the presentation video here.
Recent SGS Graduate, Natasha Bobrowski-Khoury, PhD, Receives Poster Award at FASEB International Conference
Recent SGS Graduate, Natasha Bobrowski-Khoury, PhD, Receives Poster Award at FASEB International Conference
Natasha Bobrowski-Khoury, PhD, a recent SGS graduate, won a poster award at the 2022 FASEB International Conference, in Asheville, North Carolina. This conference brings together basic and clinical investigators who are pursuing new advances in the field of one-carbon metabolism. She won the award for her poster titled, "Transmission of behavioral deficits in rats exposed to folate receptor alpha antibody in utero."
David Cano, College of Medicine Student, Receives the 2023-2024 PSSF Medical Scholars Research Fellowship
David Cano, College of Medicine Student, Receives the 2023-2024 PSSF Medical Scholars Research Fellowship
The Physician-Scientist Support Foundation (PSSF) Medical Scholars Research Fellowship (MSRF) provides research opportunities and mentoring to students who aspire to become physician-scientists. David Cano, working with his mentor Dr. Todd Sacktor, was selected as one of the 5 medical students awarded this prestigious fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year for his proposal on long-term human memory performance. Based on a recent discovery that the continual interaction between two molecules, a postsynaptic scaffolding protein and a persistently active kinase, maintains long-term memory, David’s project proposes using a novel technique — proximity ligation assay (PLA) — to detect the interactions between two proteins: KIBRA, a postsynaptic scaffold genetically linked to human memory performance, and PKMz that potentiates synapses. He will examine the changes in the interaction during long-term potentiation (LTP) of synapses, memory, and disruption of these processes in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models.
Dr. Alexandro Ramirez joins SUNY Downstate as faculty in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Dr. Alexandro Ramirez joins SUNY Downstate as faculty in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Dr. Alexandro Ramirez joined Downstate as an Assistant Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology in the School of Graduate Studies, Neural and Behavioral Systems program. He received his PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University, where he focused on the application and analysis of statistical methods to understand how the brain encodes sensory information. He completed his postdoctoral training at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he studied oculomotor brainstem neurons involved in memory and decision-making.
Dr. Ramirez 's research focusses on understanding neural circuit mechanisms that result in flexible behavior and decisions. His lab uses zebrafish as a model organism to examine brain-wide, internally-generated neuronal activity patterns that are necessary for decision-making.
Keith Haring Foundation Awards a General Operating Grant of $100,000 in Support of the STAR Program
Keith Haring Foundation Awards a General Operating Grant of $100,000 in Support of the STAR Program
We are delighted to announce a general operating grant of $100,000 from The Keith Haring Foundation in support of the STAR Program. The Keith Haring Foundation was established to sustain, expand, and protect the legacy of American artist, Keith Haring, and his ideals. The Foundation provides essential funding for organizations involved in HIV education, prevention, and care related to HIV/AIDS.
While the foundation remains a generous supporter of Downstate’s HEAT Program, this additional grant will bolster the STAR Program’s comprehensive range of interdisciplinary services, including HIV/HCV/STI screening and treatment, women’s health and prenatal care, specialized care for LGBTQIA+ populations, PrEP/PEP, and a full scope of behavioral health services. STAR provides care for young people (13-25) living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS.
We are grateful to The Keith Haring Foundation for its commitment to serving our communities through this award.
Drs. Salvador Dura-Bernal, Alexandro Ramirez, and Marcus Lambert participated in the inaugural “Science Forward: Towards Inclusive Excellence in Academia” Symposium held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on March 20 and 21.
The intent of the Science Forward symposium is to increase diversity, expand inclusion and uphold equity in basic science research at New York State’s academic research institutions.
Dr. Jack A. DeHovitz Awarded D43 Grant by Fogarty International Center of the NIH, for Joint HIV research project with Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy
Dr. Jack A. DeHovitz Awarded D43 Grant by Fogarty International Center of the NIH, for Joint HIV research project with Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy
Dr. Jack DeHovitz, Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director of the STAR program, received funding for his D43 application along with MPI, Dr. Dr. Konstantin Dumchev, Scientific Director of the Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy. On April 22, Konstantin Dumchev, MD, Scientific Director at the Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy (UIPHP) gave an inspiring address to the first SUNY Global Research Symposium. Dr. Dumchev, one of the key collaborators for NYS-ITRP activities in Ukraine, spoke of how even in the relentless face of war, the critical activities of HIV and substance use treatment delivery and related research continue to reach these marginalized populations.
The project's long-term goal will address humanitarian crisis sparked by the Russian invasion through a linked partnership with Ukraine’s leading academic public health training institution and a research-focused nongovernmental organization.
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