Congratulations to Maia Kinnebrew for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! She will be starting her PhD at Stanford in the fall and will join fellow Beckman alumni, Carolyn Mills (NSF GRFP Fellow, MIT PhD program) and Madison Cornwell (UCSD MD program), as she embarks on a spectacular journey.

Building on research published eight years ago in the journal Chemistry and Biology, Kenneth S. Kosik, Harriman Professor in Neuroscience and co-director of the Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) at UC Santa Barbara, and his team have now applied their findings to two distinct, well-known mouse models, demonstrating a new potential target in the fight against Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.