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News & ArticlesRed Tide Study Update: An Active Outbreak Brings a Timely Research Opportunity
The Roskamp Institute Red Tide Study started in 2020 and is currently made up of 250 volunteers from our local community. Fortunately, for purposes of the study, we were able to begin collecting samples of blood and saliva from these participants outside of an active...
OEA Supplementation Shows Promise in Roskamp Institute Gulf War Illness Laboratory Study – New Clinical Study Now Underway.
For over 30 years now, 250,000 veterans from the 1990-1991 Gulf War (GW) have suffered from a chronic and debilitating multi-symptom illness, called Gulf War Illness (GWI). Veterans with GWI report heterogeneous symptoms consisting of chronic pain, fatigue, and memory...
Congratulations to Ariane Menden, Roskamp Institute’s 15th Ph.D. Program Graduate
The Roskamp Institute, jointly with The Open University UK, offers a doctoral degree in Neuroscience and is pleased to announce the program’s 15th graduate Ariane Menden. Ariane joined the Institute as a Ph.D. student in October 2017. While she worked on a number of...
A New Clinical Study Aimed at Helping Gulf War Veterans
A pilot clinical study at The Roskamp Institute and Clinic examines the use of a naturally occurring lipid to improve and maintain brain function and health in veterans suffering from Gulf War Illness. For over 25 years now, 250,000 veterans from the 1990-1991 Gulf...
Gulf War Illness Study and Live Zoom Event
The Roskamp Institute is conducting a clinical research study to determine the effects of oleoylethanolamide (OEA) on lipid metabolism and immune function in veterans with Gulf War Illness. OEA is a naturally occurring lipid and we would like to see if it can maintain...
In the News: Red Tide and Roskamp Institute
The Potential Effects of Red Tide on Our Brains. How Could Red Tide Affect Our Nervous System? ABC7 Staff SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Red Tide research is continuing in Sarasota, and at Roskamp Institute, they say it’s how the toxins might affect your nervous system that...
A Bold New Frontier for Roskamp Institute Researchers
A new partnership with NASA extends Roskamp’s field of operations to the International Space Station and beyond. It’s not unusual for Roskamp Institute to work under strict confidentiality requirements – in fact, the capacity to accommodate complex project protocols...
Roskamp Institute working with NASA to support projects on the International Space Station
February 24, 2021 Sarasota, Fla.— The Roskamp Institute has become an Animal Care Facility for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). On the International Space Station, astronauts experience a number of changes that could affect their health....
Making Brain Waves
The Roskamp Institute Brings Big Science to SRQ By Sylvia Whitman, SceneSarasota.com, January 2021 Sarasota is synonymous with arts, not sciences, but a growing presence of researchers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs is expanding the regional resume. Founded in 2003,...
Red Tide Study Follow-up: Brain Health Effects of Red Tide Neurotoxins and Our Full-Circle Approach to Funding, Research, and Treatment
Dr. Michael Mullan, Executive Director Increased exposure to environmental toxins, chemicals, and viruses that impact the brain is of great interest to scientists at the Roskamp Institute, whose goal is to understand how to protect the brain, including both the young...
Alzheimer’s treatment drug built on Sarasota research heads toward FDA approval
By Laura Finaldi, Heraldtribune.com 11/5/20 A Sarasota company that researches and treats diseases of the mind is on track to receive, and then make available to local patients, a drug that experts say can be an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The drug,...
Probing the Complex Relationships Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Dementias
Every year for the last three years Roskamp Institute scientist Dr. Joseph Ojo has successfully been awarded Department of Defense funding to investigate responses to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at the cell-specific level. In a series of three complementary projects...
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