NEWS

We are thrilled to welcome Laura Mercedes as our new Clinical Research Coordinator! Laura will be focusing on recruitment and general facilitation of the Brain-Behavior-Genetics Prospective Study. Happy to have you with us!

The lab welcomes our new undergraduate cohort for the summer - Harry Hearn (Loyola University Maryland '25), Leila Abdel-Qader (University of Pennsylvania '26) and Sepp Kohler (University of Pennsylvania '27).

Congratulations to Jakob Seidlitz for being nominated as a CHOP Emerging Innovator in Collaborative Research!

Zhiqiang Sha presented his work at the annual SOBP Conference in Austin!

Zhiqiang and Dabriel presented their work at CHOP's annual research symposium to much acclaim!

We are thrilled to welcome Remo Williams, MS, as our new Research Informatics Analytics Programmer! Remo will be committed to ensuring that our image infrastructure is as performant as possible to help process, analyze, and scale to our emerging needs.

The lab is currently accepting applications from undergraduate students to assist with research on clinically acquired brain scans! Rotations are available for Summer 2024. Please follow the link below: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gKBX5uardpM8hD96hTgIAy2BZjT8sNdS1wjmW_rtYmo/edit?usp=sharing) to view the full position description.

Jakob and Kevin did a great job representing our lab at AIIM and showcasing the exciting work we’re conducting!

Congratulations to Lena Dorfschmidt for being awarded the Parke Davis Exchange Fellowship!

We are so excited to welcome Eren Kafadar to the lab! Eren is pursuing an MD-PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her work in the lab will investigate how gestational age at birth is associated with changes in the trajectory of brain development.