Katelin Slone continues to be amazing and holds this lab together almost single-handedly. 

10/23 - present

Onboarded Dylan Capes as a full-time research technician. 

11/2024

 

Awarded Grant Extension from the Wings for Life Foundation 

Title: Improving axon regeneration in the chronically injured spinal cord through delayed macrophage manipulation. 

Multiple Abstracts Accepted for Presentation at the Society for Neuroscience 2024 Conference 

Jocelyn Salazar: Knockdown of potassium channel Kv1.2 in spinal-projecting axons using retrogradely transported adeno-associated viruses in chronic spinal cord injury.

Andrew Stewart: Non-Resolving Neurofinlammation in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Impedes Axon Growth Within the Lesion.

Jocelyn Salazar was awarded Summer Scholarship.

International Presentation at the Wings for Life Grant Holders Conference in Salzburg Austria 

Improving axon regeneration in the chronically injured spinal cord through delayed macrophage manipulation. 

Christopher Bosse-Joseph presented at the 2024 KSHIRT conference in Louisville KY. 

Christopher Bosse-Joseph: Inducible Promoter System Delivered by Retrogradely Transported AAVs: A New Technique for Improving Motor Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury.

Christopher Bosse-Joseph earns Master’s Degree  

Thesis Title:  Modulating the mTOR Pathway Using Inducible Retrogradely Transported AAVs as a Novel Approach to Improve Motor Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury 

04/2024

Kennedy A. Park graduates with University Honors. 

Thesis Title: Development of a Novel Cre-Inducible Gene-Therapy to Augment Plasticity in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury  

04/2024

Awarded grant from the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust (KSCHIRT) 

Title: AKT signaling within spared axons as a mechanism to promote repair and recovery of function in chronic spinal cord injury.

Funded through 2027.

Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Neurology 

Title: PTEN knockout using retrogradely transported AAVs transiently restores locomotor abilities in both acute and chronic spinal cord injury.  

Andrew N. Stewart, Reena Kumari, William M. Bailey, Ethan P. Glaser, Christopher C. Bosse-Joseph, Kennedy A. Park, Gabrielle V. Hammers, Olivia H. Wireman, John C. Gensel. Experimental Neurology, Volume 368, 2023, 114502, ISSN 0014-4886, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2023.114502.