The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) UE5 mechanism supports the training of clinical residents and fellows to foster careers as physician-scientists. Since 2018, ten residents in our department have been supported by UE5 grants.
Current awardees
Aimee Morris, MD, PhD
Individual-specific precision function connectivity mapping of pathophysiologic and therapeutic mechanisms in focal hand dystonia
Mentors: Scott Norris, MD; Joel Perlmutter, MD
Years awarded: 2024
Gabe Vazquez Velez, MD, PhD
Investigating deleterious effects of elevated long gene expression in medium spiny neurons derived from Huntington’s disease patients
Mentors: Andrew Yoo, PhD; Joel Perlmutter, MD
Years awarded: 2024
Michelle Rudman, MD, PhD
Effect of Statins on Brain ApoE
Mentor: David Holtzman, MD
Years awarded: 2022-2023, 2023-2024
Ravi Chopra, MD, PhD
Every Neuron Counts: Operationalizing presymptomatic disease in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Mentor: Conrad Weihl, MD, PhD; Eric Landsness, MD, PhD
Years awarded: 2022
UE5 Fellow Research Symposium
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David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD (gutmannd@wustl.edu)
Past awardees
| Name | Research | Mentors | Award year |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJ Heuermann, MD, PhD | MRI Correlates of Concussion and Inattention in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study | Anne Cross, MD Tammie Benzinger, MD, PhD | 2023-2024 |
| Enmanuel Perez, MD, PhD | Effect of astrocyte and microglial ApoE on TBI-mediated neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration | David Holtzman, MD Terrance Kummer, MD, PhD | 2022-2024 |