News | Jamie Edgin, PhD, Director

The MDD lab was awarded a grants from the Molly Lawson and Lejeune Foundations
Jamie Edgin received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor!
Jamie Edgin won the 2018 Koffler Prize at the University of Arizona.
Our work was highlighted by Arizona Governor Ducey on 3/21, as the capitol went blue for DS research.
In March, the MDD lab will be traveling to San Antonio to deliver a talk on sleep and display the new iPAD assessment to the researchers attending the Gatlinburgh conference.
The MDD lab received a 1% score on an NIH RO1 (Edgin PI)!
The MDD lab presented four talks at the International Conference on Memory in Budapest in July 2016!
Congratulations to fellow Caron Clark for her new faculty position at the University of Nebraska!
In summer 2016, our invited commentary on clinical trials in Down syndrome was published in Lancet Neurology, covered by UK media here.
Our work on sleep and development was featured in the March 2016 issue of the Scientist Magazine
Congratulations to Stella Sakhon who received 2nd place for her presentation at the Graduate Student Showcase (category: Education) in Feb 2016!
MDD Honors Student Shivani Misra was selected as the NSCS outstanding senior! Congrats Shivani.
MDD Honors Student Shivani Misra was profiled in the Arizona Daily Star Science Supplement.
In January 2016, Jamie Edgin joined the Science Advisory Board of the National Down Syndrome Society.
Goffedina Spano, the MDD lab's first graduate student (PhD expected 2016) has taken a postdoctoral position with Eleanor Maguire at the University College London! Congrats Dina.
In 2015 Dr. Edgin was elected a fellow of the Psychonomics Society.
Jamie Edgin was awarded the Inaugural David Cox "Rising Star" award in 2015 for her work on Down syndrome.
In 2014, MDD student (now lab staff) Bianca Demara (pictured below with Dr. Edgin and her mother) received the Neuroscience & Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Honors college outstanding senior awards.