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.