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 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.
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.