Monday, September 19, 2022, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT
Donald Stein, Asa Griggs Candler Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology
The Don Stein Story: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”
As a kid from the Bronx, I was a big fan of the NY Yankees, and one of my heroes was Yogi Berra. I have appropriated one of his (in)famous sayings for the title of my talk because it represents how I made most of the choices that guided my career from my undergraduate days, through graduate school and post-doc training, and to and through my many years working at Emory. “Taking the fork in the road” has led me on an exciting journey in which I have challenged established paradigms in neuroscience, focusing on how the inaccurately labeled “female” hormone, progesterone, can play an important role in the treatment of traumatic brain injury, glioblastoma, and other diseases of the CNS. Today, I’ll share some of the outcomes of my research (ad)ventures—including a brief update on the preliminary results of the study my 2022 Heilbrun grant is helping me to pursue right now.