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On June 18, a paper with an aim to reduce obesity authored by Burke Neurological Institute’s Preclinical Stroke Modeling Laboratory was determined to be in the top 2 percent of manuscripts with significance and overall importance for the yea

JBC’s Editors’ Picks: Inhibition of CD36 reduces visceral fat accumulation and improves insulin resistance in diet-induced obese BDNF Val66Met mice
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Yang J, Park KW, Cho S.
J Biol Chem. 2018 Aug 24;293(34):13338-13348. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA118.002405. Epub 2018 Jun 18.
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Karuppagounder SS, Zhai Y, Chen Y, He R, Ratan RR.
Cond Med. 2018 Apr;1(4):143-150. Epub 2018 Jun 15.
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Yoshida Y, Isa T.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2018 Oct;52:25-32. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.04.005. Epub 2018 Apr 24.
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Weekly Seminar | Not Open to the Public
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 - 12:30pm
Billings Building – Rosedale
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National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

White Plains, NY -- Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY17/Rockland-Westchester) today announced $3,125,875 in federal funding over the next five years for Burke Medical Research Institute (BMRI) in White Plains.

Dr. Jian Zhong & BMRI Colleagues Awarded funding to visualize reformation of spinal circuits as they are happening.
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Smirnova NA, Kaidery NA, Hushpulian DM, Rakhman II, Poloznikov AA, Tishkov VI, Karuppagounder SS, Gaisina IN, Pekcec A, Leyen KV, Kazakov SV, Yang L, Thomas B, Ratan RR, Gazaryan IG.
Aging Dis. 2016 Dec 1;7(6):745-762. doi: 10.14336/AD.2016.0505. eCollection 2016 Dec.
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Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress are consistent features of multiple neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

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Lu Q, Ganjawala TH, Ivanova E, Cheng JG, Troilo D, Pan ZH.
Gene Ther. 2016 Aug;23(8-9):680-9. doi: 10.1038/gt.2016.42.
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Non-Federal
January 1, 2016 to February 28, 2019
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Completed Project
New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH)
Spinal Cord Injury Research Board (SCIRB)
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