News and Recent Events

April 14, 2025: Congratulations to Paul Renner for the CBI Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships award!

The SURF awards support the training and development of exceptional Ohio State undergraduates by involving them in basic, clinical, and translational research during the summer. Faculty mentors guide students through a research project. Accepted applications must show the project’s relevance, feasibility, available funding, and how it will benefit the student’s success. Paul’s Thesis is centered on human monocyte polarization conditions for optimal neuroprotective and pro-regenerative phenotypes. Congrats Paul!

July 4, 2024: Happy Independence Day!

Pictured Alex Sepeda, Dr. Andrew Sas, MD, and Jack Finn at the 2023 Department of Neurology Holiday Party.

June 20, 2024: “Discovery holds promise to restore function in people with paralysis and neurological diseases”

Read about our newest research collaboration here: https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pressreleaselisting/discovery-holds-promise-to-restore-function-in-people-with-paralysis-and-neurological-diseases

Pictured primary author Andrew Jerome.

 

June 07, 2024: Funding Secured!

We are thrilled to announce that our lab has recently received R01 funding for our project “Arginase Positive Monocyte Mediated Retinal Ganglion Cell Neuroprotection in Optic Neuropathy”

March 24, 2024: Brain Health 5k

The Sas and Segal labs participated in the Brain injury awareness 5K! Both lab members Jack Finn and Jeff Atkinson took home some hardware by winning their respective age groups with Jack putting up the fastest 5K time overall!

December 25, 2023: Happy Holidays from the Sas Lab!

Pictured Alex Sepeda, Dr. Andrew Sas, MD, and Jack Finn at the 2023 Department of Neurology Holiday Party.