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• Make A Gift

  We are grateful for your gift to the Center for Neural Injury and Recovery. Funding from private organizations and individual donors is critical to the medical research enterprise, particularly in

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• Special NIP Trainee Events

  Reproducibility of Experiments in Biomedical Sciences Elevator Pitches. Can you describe your science in 60 seconds? Shadow Day at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital

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• Elevator Pitches

  Can you describe your science in 60 seconds?NIP trainees can! NIP trainees participate in special training sessions to practice how to clearly and concisely 'pitch' their research. As practice

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• Contact Us

  For more information regarding the CNIR, please contact: Dr. Mark Burns

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• Journal Club

  Fridays at Noon in the Neuroscience Library The purpose of this journal club is to critically discuss the current literature relevant to CNIR and to gain experience with an oral presentation

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• NIP Trainees

  Current NIP Trainees 2026-2027 Academic Year Celine Ertekin: Evans Lab, Neuroscience PhD I am a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown Univ

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• NIP Training Grant

  GUMC New Research Building Home of the NIP Training Program The Training Program in Neural Injury and Plasticity (NIP) grew from the Center for Neural Injury and Recovery (CNIR) and represents

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• CNIR Research

  We study the basic molecular mechanisms that lead to neurodegeneration in many different nervous system disorders and the fundamental mechanisms that support development and recovery of function.  We

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• CNIR Faculty

  Gerard Ahern, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, GUMCPlasticity of neurons in response to pain signaling, with a focus on capsaicin and voltage-dependent sodium channels

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