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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.

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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.

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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.

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.   

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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.

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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 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.

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.

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