Major Research AreasResearchers in the College of Graduate Studies focus their efforts where it truly matters —on the diseases and illnesses that affect many people. Much of our research activity is grouped into four areas of concentration: cancer; infectious diseases; disorders of the nervous system; and diabetes, metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases.
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Steve Hicks
Steve Hicks was awarded a three-year National Institutes of Health pre-doctoral fellowship ($99,796) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for his project, "Effects of ethanol on cell cycle regulation and DNA repair in neural progenitors." Using a mouse model, Hicks studies the effects of ethanol on neurogenesis as it applies to fetal alcohol syndrome and chronic alcoholism. After he earns his dual degree from Upstate, Hicks plans to combine neuroscience research with primary care medicine "to advance the way we understand and treat disorders associated with the human brain," he said. |