Dr. Xin-Yun Lu Chair Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine She was a curious child, a voracious reader, the third of six children born to Fengying Zhang and Shunchun Lu in the Shandong Province, in eastern China on the...
Essential Pressure
Dr. David L. Mattson Chair Physiology He had just come back from his lab and Dr. David L. Mattson was excited. Mattson and his former postdoc, Dr. Justine M. Abais-Battad, who came with him to MCG this summer from the...
An Instinct for Making Things Work
Dr. Brian Annex Chair Medicine A very young Brian Annex liked figuring out how things work, why they didn’t and was drawn to the opportunities to do both in science and math. He would grow up in one of Brooklyn’s...
From the President: Fall 2019/Winter 2020
Dear Friends and Alumni, In October, when Tara Simkins of the Press On Foundation presented me with a check committing $1 million to support pediatric cancer programs at the Georgia Cancer Center, she was investing in...
News and Views: Spring 2019
Aging Fat and Alzheimer’s Connection Scientists want to know whether our aging fat cells are important to the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s. They have evidence that as we age, our fat becomes less efficient...
From the Dean: Spring 2019
We talked in these pages last time about leadership and the future of the Medical College of Georgia. Some of my earliest thoughts and frankly the ones that kept me up at night in my earliest days as dean were about...
