Congratulations to two of our ISL Faculty Affiliates who have been awarded a Florida Department of Health Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s grant worth $350k. Dr. Julia Sheffler and Dr. Ravinder Nagpal will begin work soon on their newly funded project titled “A scalable Mediterranean-ketogenic nutrition intervention to improve gut and brain health in underserved rural older adults with mild cognitive impairment.”

Reviews for the 2023 ISL Planning Grants have been completed and two grants will be awarded to our ISL Faculty Affiliates for their outstanding interdisciplinary grant proposals. Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Parvatiyar (pictured on left) and Dr. Zilong Xie (pictured on right.) We are looking forward to your research results!

ISL Affiliate Lynn Panton awarded with Henry Montoye Scholar Award from our regional chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. Scholar Award recipients are accomplished researchers, mentors, and leaders in Southeast ACSM. The 2023 Scholar Award recipient, Lynn Panton, PhD, FACSM, shares these same qualities. Congratulations Dr. Panton!

ISL Affiliate awarded with the 2023 FSU Distinguished Teacher award! FSU Associate Professor of Communication and ISL Faculty Affiliate Russell Clayton’s efforts to motivate students to discover their own creativity and excel in their careers have earned him the university’s most prestigious honor for teaching.

FSU psychologist and ISL Faculty Affiliate Caterina Gratton, is part of a multi-institution team that has been awarded $3M NIH grant to research variations in Parkinson’s disease.

“We’re thrilled to be supported in this way by the NIH,” Gratton said. “We understand that Parkinson’s disease and the brain both look quite different across individuals, and this grant will allow us to collect exciting new data on individual brain networks in Parkinson’s disease and hopefully illuminate how these networks may be connected to differences in symptoms and pathology seen in the disorder.”

ISL Faculty Affiliate, Dr. Wen Li, awarded $5.7M to further her research. She is receiving a $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study PTSD and pain.

ISL Affiliate Michelle Parvatiyar Awarded McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship awarded by The Florida Education Fund as part of their initiative to encourage exceptional teaching and research by faculty historically underrepresented in academia.

Neil Charness, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity, announced yesterday that Leila Khalili, Ph.D. student in the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, has been awarded the 2023 Institute for Successful Longevity’s Esther & Del Grosser Scholarship.

The scholarship provides $1,000 in support of student research.

The Oasis Center for Women & Girls honors ISL Affiliate Barbara Boone with the 2023 Unsung Shero Award.

An unsung shero is a woman who plays a critical role in the community but doesn’t often receive public recognition for their efforts. We are so proud to have Barbara as a part of the ISL team and are happy to share about her amazing work for our community.