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Congrats Jasmine on winning Trainee Development Program Award from Society for Neuroscience 2024
A&N PhD student Jasmine Cheng has been selected for a Trainee Development Program Award from Society for Neuroscience 2024, which recognizes scientific merit and excellence in research. She will present her work on In-vivo BBB imaging on young APOE4 mice in the Koo Lab at the SFN meeting in Chicago... More
Congrats to Yi on winning the 2024 Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Award for PhD in Anatomy & Neurobiology Program
Please join us in congratulating Yi on winning the 2024 Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Award for the PhD in Anatomy & Neurobiology Program. This year, one student from each department in the Graduate Medical Sciences is selected and will receive a $1000 dollar award in recognition of their research... More
Congratulations to Yi on winning the CNS Travel Award!
We are thrilled to share that Yi received a travel award from Society of Neuroscience in the amount of $2,500 USD to attend the Chinese Neuroscience Society (CNS) 2024 conference in Suzhou, China. The applicant pool was competitive, and her application was rated among the best for scientific merit, strength... More
BIL celebrated for new fundings from DoD
Please join us in celebrating our latest funding award from the Department of Defense FY23 Toxic Exposures Research Program for more exciting research studying the effects of APOE4 allele and toxic exposure experiences in brain health. BIL members had a great time celebrating this together with a nice dinner!
Sriman presented his poster at the Medical Student Research Symposium
Please join us in congratulating Sriman for his poster presentation on his research work in "APOE4 Carrier Status Effect on Fornix Structure Integrity and Cognitive Status in Large-scale UK Biobank Study."
Congratulations to Sriman Narain for being accepted to the LEADS Research Track in the first year of his medical school
We're thrilled to announce that Sriman Narain, a valued member of our lab, has been accepted into the highly competitive Learn, Experience, Advocate, Discover, and Serve (LEADS) research track where medical students will engage in research for the first two years of medical school. Sirman has been working on several... More
Thanksgiving lunch gathering for BIL
Moments from SfN Neuroscience 2023 conference in Washington, DC
Welcome to the team!
We are excited to welcome a number of new lab members joining the team this summer! Special shoutout to our high school intern student, Daniel Kim (second left), who helped out several key projects while visiting Boston. To learn more about each of our new member's role and backgrounds, please... More
Dr. Koo received 2023 Marion and Henri Gendron, DSc, Faculty Award for studying blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability with non-invasive MRI techniques
We are pleased to announce that our principal investigator (PI), Dr. Bang-Bon Koo, is the recipient of the 2023 Marion and Henri Gendron, DSc, Faculty Award. This study, working alongside with Assistant Professor of Radiology, Ning Hua, PhD, and Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Farzad Mortazavi, PhD, will focus... More