Congratulations to Alena Grabowski for receiving a Provost Faculty Achievement Award!

Chris DeSouza was awarded a 3-year grant for $300,000 from the American Heart Association “Adipocyte-Derive Extracellular Vesicles: Novel Biomarker and Mediator of Obesity-Related Enothelial Dysfunction”.

Alena Grabowski presented a TEDxMileHigh talk: "Why can't disabled athletes compete at the Olympics?"

Tabitha Green, post-doc in the Rowe Lab, presented a poster at the World Sleep Congress.

Grant Mannino, an undergraduate in the Rowe lab, was selected for a Professional & Academic Conference Endowment (PACE) award to fund travel to a conference to present UROP-funded research.

Rowe Lab publication: Ortiz, J Bryce et al. “Diffuse traumatic brain injury substantially alters plasma growth hormone in the juvenile rat.” The Journal of endocrinology vol. 260,1 e230157. 20 Nov. 2023, doi:10.1530/JOE-23-0157.

Female C57BL/6N mice are a viable model of aortic aging in women. Longtine AG, Venkatasubramanian R, Zigler MC, Lindquist MC, Mahoney SA, Greenberg NT, VanDongen NS, Ludwig KR, Moreau KL, Seals DR, Clayton ZS. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2023 Jun 1; 324(6):H893-H904.

Green T.F.R., Carey S.D., Mannino G.M., Craih J.A., Rowe R.K., Zielinski M.R. (2024) “Sleep, Inflammation, and Hemodynamics in Rodent Models of Traumatic Brain Injury” Frontiers in Neuroscience (Volume 18).

Novel whole blood transcriptome signatures of changes in maximal aerobic capacity in response to endurance exercise training in healthy women. Physiol Genomics. 2023, Jun 19. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00017.2023.

Nicholas Panayi, Philip Schulz, Ping He, Brandon Hanna, Jonathan Lifshitz, Rachel K Rowe, Michael R Sierks. 2024 Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice Generates Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease Related Protein Pathology that Correlates with Neurobehavioral Deficits Molecular Neurobiology.

Ryan Milstead from the Hoeffer and Link labs, was selected to present a young investigator oral presentation at the T21RS international conference in Rome in June 2024. Ryan was also awarded a travel award to support his attendance.

Hoeffer lab was awarded two CU grants: one for modeling astrocyte morphological responses to substances of abuse with Meredith Betterton in Physics and another with Luke Evans in IBG/EEB (impact of computationally identified hub genes in Alzheimer's disease neuronal networks).

Eamonn Duffy and Erika Mehrhoff, graduate students in the Ehringer lab, was selected for a $1000 Travel Award to attend the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society meeting at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.

Rachel Rowe was awarded an NIH NINDS R01 “The mechanistic role of microglia and IL10 in the regulation of pathological sleep disturbances” - 5 years.

Andrew Tan, assistant professor, Department of Integrative Physiology, and director of the Sensorimotor Recovery and Neuroplasticity Lab was recently named as a Boettcher Foundation 2024 Outstanding Biomedical Researcher. This amazing honor is accompanied by a $250,000 grant.

Kora Kastengren from the Hoeffer and Link labs (enrolling in Fall 2024) was awarded the Graduate School Dean's Fellowship for admission into CU in Fall 2024.

Meaghan Alstyne, Roy Parker, & Hoeffer were awarded a Lab Venture Challenge grant from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade Advanced Industries Program. The project is "New treatment for dementia with peptide therapeutics targeting tau aggregation.".

On May 1, Zachary Clayton, from the Seals Lab, started a new position at University of Colorado Anschutz as an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine/Division of Geriatric Medicine!!

Sixteen members of Team USA Sled Hockey worked with IPHY's Grabowski Lab to improve their performance and minimize injury.

A new Education Abroad course - IPHY 4041 Global Health and Disease in Durban, South Africa in May, 2025.