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NKI’s Most Highly Cited Researchers

NKI’s Most Highly Cited Researchers
This year, three NKI investigators have been recognized for their high-impact research. Ralph Nixon, MD, PhD, F. Xavier Castellanos, MD, ...

Mark Klinger, DVM, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Mark Klinger, DVM
Dr. Mark Klinger was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Metro New York Branch - American Association for ...

C-BIN Secures Conte Center Grant Renewal

Schroeder Milham
Dr. Charles Schroeder, Director of the Translational Neuroscience Laboratories, and Michael Milham, Director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging & ...

Dr. Helen Scharfman Receives Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award

Dr Helen Scharfman
Dr. Helen Scharfman is the recipient of a 2022 Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders ...

NAMI-NYS Awards Recognize Two NKI Investigators

Hoptman
At the NAMI New York State Education Conference held on November 11-12 in Albany, two NKI researchers were presented with ...

NKI’s Most Highly Cited Researchers: Xavier Castellanos, MD, and Michael Milham, MD, PhD

NKI's Most Highly Cited Researchers: Xavier Castellanos, MD, and Michael Milham, MD, PhD
Two NKI investigators have once again been recognized for their high-impact research. Drs. F. Xavier Castellanos and Michael P. Milham both appear on the 2022 list ...

Dr. Ayana Jordan Receives the First ASAM DEI Award

Ayana Jordan
Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD, has been selected by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) to be the first recipient ...

The Levy Laboratory Describes a Method to Isolate a Novel Type of Extracellular Vesicle from the Brain

Pasquale D'Acunzo
A new paper published in Nature Protocols by Pasquale D'Acunzo, Yohan Kim, Jonathan M. Ungania, Rocío Pérez-González, Chris N. Goulbourne, ...

Dr. Ralph Nixon Receives Oskar Fischer Gold Prize

Ralph Nixon, Ph.D., M.D.
Ralph A. Nixon, Ph.D., M.D., Director of NKI’s Center for Dementia Research, has spent the last three decades working to ...

Nixon Lab Provides Further Evidence for Alternative Alzheimer’s Theory

Ju-Hyun Lee, PhD
A new open access paper in Nature Neuroscience by Ju-Hyun Lee, PhD, Center for Dementia Research (CDR) Director Ralph Nixon, ...

Dr. Crystal Lewis Receives Faculty Mentorship Award

Crystal Fuller Lewis, Ph.D.
Crystal Lewis, PhD, Director of the Social Solutions & Services Division at NKI, received the NYU Department of Psychiatry’s “Research ...

New Depression Treatment Shows Promise

Dan Iosifescu
Dan Iosifescu, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research at NKI, ...

Dr. Ralph Nixon Receives The Leonard Litwin Scholar Award

Ralph Nixon, Ph.D., M.D.
Dr. Ralph Nixon, Director of the Center for Dementia Research, has been selected by New Vision Research as the first recipient ...

NKI Researchers Are Consistently Among the Most Highly Cited

Drs. F. Xavier Castellanos and Michael P. Milham
Two NKI investigators have once again been recognized for their high-impact research. Drs. F. Xavier Castellanos and Michael P. Milham ...

Study Shows Increased Risk of Death from COVID-19 for Patients with Schizophrenia

Study Shows Increased Risk of Death from COVID-19 for Patients with Schizophrenia
A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that schizophrenia is a risk factor for mortality in patients with COVID-19 ...

Educational Video Addresses Systemic Racism in America

Crystal Fuller Lewis, Ph.D.
In the wake of the upheaval following the murder of George Floyd, faculty members of NKI’s Center for Research on ...

Investigating How Stress and Aging Can Lead to Alzheimer’s Disease

Stephen Ginsberg, Ph.D.
Dr. Stephen Ginsberg of the Center for Dementia Research was a key contributor to a paper recently published in Nature ...

Dr. Helen Scharfman Receives Basic Science Research Award

Dr Helen Scharfman
Helen Scharfman, PhD, has received the annual Basic Science Research Award from the American Epilepsy Society (AES), in recognition of ...

NKI’s Highly Cited Researchers

Castellanos Javitt LeDoux Milham
The Highly Cited Researchers list from the Web of Science Group recognizes the world's most influential researchers of the past ...

New Book by Joseph LeDoux Explores the Evolution of the Human Mind

Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D.
Joseph LeDoux, Director of the Emotional Brain Institute, has published a new book titled The Deep History of Ourselves: The ...

Emotional Brain Institute Investigator MERITs Renewal

Dr Regina Sullivan
Regina Sullivan, PhD, a member of the NKI Emotional Brain Institute, has received a five-year renewal of her MERIT award ...

Dr. Helen Scharfman Contributes to Neurogenesis Research

Dr Helen Scharfman
Dr. Helen Scharfman coauthored a new Science paper (Luna et al.) examining the role of adult neurogenesis in hippocampal brain ...

Dr. Efrat Levy Promoted to Full Professor

Dr Efrat Levy
Efrat Levy, Ph.D., a Research Scientist in the Center for Dementia Research, has been promoted to the rank of Professor ...

Funding Update – December, 2018

Dr. Robert Sears
Dr. Robert Sears (Emotional Brain Institute) received a NARSAD Young Investigator award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation for ...