• Sep 29 2025

2025 TL1 Awardees Announced

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 29, 2025) – The University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science is pleased to announce the 20205 cohort of TL1 awardees.

The TL1 Training Program in Clinical and Translational Science is designed to train exceptional pre- and postdoctoral trainees with skills required for a career in multidisciplinary clinical and translational research. Awardees receive dedicated mentorship and rigorous clinical and translational research training integrated with their ongoing professional or graduate research programs.

Congratulations to the 2025 TL1 awardees, and gratitude to the committed TL1 mentors.

Predoctoral Awardees
 

  • Grant Fox
    Department: Neuroscience
    Project: Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathological Changes Driving Alterations of Transcriptomic and Epitranscriptomic Regulation Leveraging Long-Read Direct RNA Sequencing.
    Mentor: Dr. Mark T.W. Ebbert

  • Mariana Jacobs
    Department: Kinesiology & Health Promotion
    Project: Knee Joint Health and Function in Children and Adolescents with and without Marfan Syndrome
    Mentor: Michael Samaan, PhD
     
  • Ahkil Pallerla
    Department: Physiology
    Project: Understanding the role of peripheral lymphocytes in driving adverse reactions to anti-Aβ immunotherapy
    Mentor: Lance Johnson, PhD
     
  • Jillian Silva-Jones
    Department: Psychology
    Project: Contextualizing the Impact of Social and Environmental Determinants on Sleep Health
    Mentor: Laurent Whitehurst, PhD
     
  • Ashley White
    Department: Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences
    Project: TLR4 as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Nicotine Addiction
    Mentor: Cassandra Gipson Reichardt, PhD
     
Postdoctoral Awardee

  • Kathleen McNealy, PhD
    Department: Pharmacology & Nutritional Sciences
    Project: Bridging Community and Bench Science: Incorporating Perspectives of People with Living Experience to Characterize a Preclinical Rat Model of Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, and Xylazine Co-Use
    Mentor: Cassandra Gipson Reichardt, PhD


 

Media Contact: Mallory Profeta, mallory.profeta@uky.edu 

 

 

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