PPG Lead Investigators present symposium on their research at the International Meeting on Steroids and the Nervous System in February, 2026, Turin, Italy.
The five Lead Investigators of the Program Project Grant presented a symposium on their research at the 13th International Meeting on Steroids and the Nervous System held in Turin, Italy held in February, 2026 https://www.neurosteroids.unito.it/. (L-R) Drs. Andrea Zsombok, Laura Schrader, Jill Daniel, Sarah Lindsey, and Ricardo Mostany.
Ana Leite receives American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, December, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Ana Leite, a member of Dr. Lindsey's Project 3! Ana received a 2025 Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association after scoring in the top 1.49% of applicants.
This award enhances the training of promising students in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree training programs and who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists, or related careers aimed at improving global health and wellbeing.
Researchers featured in Self magazine, March 2025
Dr. Jill Daniel, Project Director of the PPG and Dr. Pauline Maki, external advisory board member for the PPG, were featured in an article in Self Magazine entitled “What Does Estrogen Do in the Brain? A Lot More Than You Might Realize”. PPG researchers at Tulane focus on estrogen’s effects on cardiometabolic health and aging, while Dr. Maki at University of Illinois / Chicago has extensively studied the effects of effects of estrogen fluctuations, for example during pregnancy or perimenopause, on cognition, mood, and dementia.
Dr. Jill Daniel presents professional development keynote at the annual Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Meeting on July 15, 2025.
Estrogens, memory, and the brain: a scientific and professional journey in academia
PPG Graduate Student Chase Richard receives travel award for Women's Health conference, October 2025
Congratulations to Chase Richard, a graduate student in Project 3. He has been selected for a Travel Award to attend the upcoming Sex Differences and Women's Health Research Conference sponsored by the American Physiological Society.
Dr. Larry Reagan meets with PPG trainees during his visit in December 2025
Tulane Brain Institute Seminar Speaker Dr. Larry Reagan met with PPG trainees during his visit on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. Dr. Reagan presented a talk on Insulin and leptin resistance at the intersection of metabolic stress, cognitive dysfunction and neuropsychiatric disorders
Dr. Reagan is Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, University of South Carolina.
Dr. Ana Leite presents a poster at the Hypertension Scientific Sessions meeting held in Baltimore in September, 2025
Dr. Ana Paula De Oliveira Leite presented "Estradiol Fails to Protect the Kidney and Vasculature When Hypertension Precedes Menopause" at the Hypertension Scientific Sessions meeting held in Baltimore, Maryland September 4-7, 2025.
Mr. Chase Richard presents poster at the Hypertension Scientific Sessions meeting held in Baltimore in September, 2025
Chase Richard presented "Long-term effects of hypertension on vascular health and brain plasticity" at the Hypertension Scientific Sessions meeting held in Baltimore, Maryland September 4-7, 2025.
Dr. Fatemeh Farahini discusses Project 2 findings at the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, November 2025
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Dr. Matthieu Maroteaux presents PPG Project 1 findings at the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, November 2025
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