2021 Year in Review

The research team examined how myeloid cells can also facilitate repair by clearing debris and promoting tissue remodeling during the early stages of repair. The study showed that a transcription factor, hypoxia-inducible factor, which the Ratan lab has been studying for years, marks myeloid cells that are associated with good long term recovery.

To conclude National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month, the Cerebral Palsy Foundation announced with great honor, Dr. Kathleen Friel of the Burke Neurological Institute is the 2021 National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Research Award recipient.

Today, scientists still do not know the cause of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), yet decades of research advancements give hope to the possibility of slowing down early-onset of AD. Benfotiamine, a therapeutic drug that raises blood vitamin B1, levels very high, was recently tested as a pilot clinical study conducted by the Gibson Lab at the Burke Neurological Institute.

In a landmark research study on eighty-two children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) on one side of the body, researchers at Burke Neurological Institute, Teacher’s College-Columbia University, and Weill Cornell Medicine learned that two intensive training therapies improved hand and arm function, allowing children to learn new, long-term life skills regardless of how the injured brain had re-wired itself.

Congratulations to Dr. Rajiv R. Ratan for being selected by City & State NY magazine for the inaugural Life Sciences Power 50.