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2025-2026 Presidential Fellows in Collaborative Neuroscience

Insights and Introductions: Meet the 2025–2026 Presidential Fellows in Collaborative Neuroscience

The University of Virginia is proud to announce the 2025–26 cohort of Presidential Fellows in Collaborative Neuroscience. In the following Q&A, meet the people behind the research—what drives their curiosity, the challenges they’re tackling, and their visions for the future of neuroscience.

Sarah Kucenas in zebrafish lab.

A Conversation with Sarah Kucenas

As she transitions into a new leadership role within the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences as Associate Dean for Research, Sarah Kucenas reflects on her impactful tenure as co-director of the UVA Brain Institute in the following Q&A.

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Discovery Could Battle Alzheimer’s by Boosting Blood Flow to Brain

New research, led by Ukpong B. Eyo, UVA Department of Neuroscience, suggests an unexpected way doctors may be able to improve blood flow to the brain to battle Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The scientists believe problems with these microglia could be contributing to failing brain health, and targeting them could help us prevent or reverse memory-stealing diseases caused or worsened by lack of adequate blood flow.

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Brain Cancer Discoveries Earn Sontheimer Top Award

UVA School of Medicine’s Harald Sontheimer, PhD, and Stanford’s Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, have received the 2025 International Prize in Translational Neuroscience from the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation for their pioneering research in the emerging field of cancer neuroscience. The foundation noted that Sontheimer and Monie’s work has “fundamentally changed our understanding of brain tumors” and opened the door to desperately needed new treatments.

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A Deep Dive Into Neuroscience

Neuroscience discoveries at the University of Virginia have helped patients at every stage of the life cycle and led researchers to a better understanding of the human body’s most important organ.

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