Congratulations to Marco Pipoly on being awarded the 2022 Kwak-Ferguson Fellowship, a $10,000 award from the Iowa Neuroscience Institute for an upper level graduate student working in the area of neurodegenerative diseases.
Marco’s research seeks to understand how the aging brain organizes itself and adapts in order to continue meeting everyday demands. His thesis work uses fMRI and cognitive control tasks to better understand the role of brain networks in maintaining cognitive function as we age. His career goal is to uncover the neural mechanisms of cognitive reserve, aging, and the biological basis of prolonged cognitive health.