Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, has begun a two-year term as president of the International Society for Eye Research.

UB Parkinson’s disease researchers led by Jian Feng, PhD, have discovered how mutations in the parkin gene cause the disease.

The $400,000 award furthers Gabriela Popescu’s efforts to find drugs that allow NMDA receptors to perform essential brain functions while stopping signals that are toxic to brain cells in stroke and neurodegenerative disease.

Future MDs investigating vascular calcification, Peruvian medicinal plants, basal cell carcinoma and pediatric brain tumors took top honors at the Medical Student Research Forum.

Sara Zimmer, PhD, has received a highly competitive fellowship to research diseases caused by kinetoplastids.