Dr. Larry Reagan Visit
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.
Mr. Chase Richard presents poster at 2023 SFN meeting
PPG Team member Mr. Chase Richard (Project 3) presented a poster entitled "Interaction of estrogen loss and carodiovascular disease on neurovascular coupling." at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience held in Washington, DC in November 2023.
Ms. Ariane Imulinde-Sugi presents at the 2023 ABRCMS conference
PPG Team member Ms. Ariane Imulinde-Sugi (Project 3) presented "Impact of the Timing of Hypertension on the Cardiovascular Response to Estrogen" at the 2023 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS), held in Phoenix, Arizona in November, 2023.
PPG members present Project updates at External Advisory Committee Meeting
The PPG team joined members of the External and Internal Advisory Committees to hear Project updates that were presented at the second annual meeting of the PPG Advisory Committees held on the Tulane campus on January 12, 2024.
Mr. Chase Richard and Dr. Sarah Lindsey awarded NIA Diversity Supplement
Congratulations to Project 3 Lead Dr. Sarah Lindsey and graduate student and Project 3 Team member Mr. Chase Richard on the awarding of an NIA Diversity Supplement to the P01.
Dr. Lucie Desmoulins presents poster at the 2024 American Physiological Society Summit
PPG team member Dr. Lucie Desmoulins (Project 4) presents a poster entitled "Pre-existing metabolic conditions impair the beneficial effects of estrogen on memory and cognition in ovariectomized mice" at the 2024 American Physiological Society Summit held in Long Beach, California.
Dr. Christian Montanari presents poster at 2023 Society for Neuroscience
PPG Team member Dr. Christian Montanari (Project 1) presented a poster entitled "Relationship between estrogens, cardiometabolic health, and spatial memory in a rat model of menopause" at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience held in Washington, DC in November 2023.
Ana Leite receives American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
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
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.
PPG Graduate Student Chase Richard receives travel award for Women's Health conference
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.