Dr. Brittany Taylor was awarded an early career R21 grant in March of 2023 to investigate the pathways through which chronic radon exposure and toxin-induced changes in inflammation are associated with brain function, and cognitive and mental health in youth.

Dr. Gaelle Doucet was awarded R03 funding to construct and validate the first ever functional reference brain atlas for typically developing youth between the ages of 8-17 years.

Dr. Max Kurz, Director of the PoWER Lab, was awarded an R01 grant in September 2022 to examine the development of new biomarkers that capture the connection between nervous system dysfunction and the altered mobility seen in youth with cerebral palsy.

Dr. Tony W. Wilson, Director of the Institute for Human Neuroscience and the DICoN Lab, was awarded an R01 grant in April 2022 to determine whether parameters of the mitochondrial redox environment drive neuro-inflammation in persons with HIV and to explore whether chronic cannabis use modulates these parameters, with the long-term goal of identifying viable therapeutics.