Anne Curtis Receives 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
Anne Curtis of the Chantranupong Lab received an honorable mention for the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
Anne characterizes neuromelanin, a pigment lost in dopamine neurons during Parkinson’s Disease. Building off her stem cell experience at UC Santa Barbara, she is establishing the lab’s first induced pluripotent stem cell bank and optimizing the directed differentiation of midbrain organoids. She plans to track neuromelanin granule formation and function in her midbrain organoid model to better understand the role of this poorly studied pigment in dopaminergic neurons.
Congratulations, Anne!