LAB NEWS
2025
- Nadia Lunardi presents in the symposium “EEG signatures of delirium: bridging insights from bench to bedside” at the 2025 American Delirium Society conference.
- Nadia Lunardi presents in the symposium “From genes to symptoms: exploring genetic and epigenetic pathways in delirium” at the 2025 American Delirium Society conference.
- Jeffrey Wooters, Navya Atluri, Jinny Park, Michal Jedrusiak, Hari Prasad Osuru, and Nadia Lunardi receive the Distinguished Research Abstract Award — First Place at the UVA Celebration of Research.
- Jeffrey Wooters presents “Surgery and ICU exposure remodel perineuronal nets” at the UVA Celebration of Research.
- Jeffrey Wooters presents “Hippocampal PNN loss is associated with delirium-like cognitive impairment in aged mice after anesthesia, surgery, and a simulated ICU environment” at the American Delirium Society (ADS) Conference.
- Jeffrey Wooters presents “Hippocampal PNN loss is associated with delirium-like cognitive impairment in aged mice after anesthesia, surgery, and a simulated ICU environment (ASI)” at the UVA Brain Retreat.
2024
- Navya Atluri, Elzbieta Dulko, and Michal Jedrusiak receive First Prize for Best Publication at the 2024 Celebration of Research Conference.
- Jinny Park presents “Surgery, anesthesia, and intensive care conditions induce perineuronal net loss in aged mice” at the 2024 Celebration of Research Conference.
2023
- Elzbieta Dulko, Michal Jedrusiak, and Hari Prasad Osuru receive Second Prize for Best Publication at the 2023 Celebration of Research Conference.
- Jinny Park presents on “Isoflurane and propofol differentially modulate liver cancer associated genes in sepsis” at the 2023 Commonwealth of Virginia Cancer Research Conference
- Michal Jedrusiak receives the first prize for best abstract at the 2023 Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine meeting
- Jinny Park receives the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences Small Research and Travel Grant for research conducted in the Lunardi lab
- Check out Dr. Lunardi’s discussion during the NIDUS webinar “Preclinical and translational models for delirium: recommendations for future research” with Drs. Vasunilashorn, Terrando and Eckenhoff

- Nadia Lunardi presents at the symposium “Novel approaches to model delirium in mice” at the 2023 American Delirium Society meeting with Drs. Shinozaki and Terrando
- Nadia Lunardi presents “A pilot study of histone acetylation-deacetylation modifications in postoperative ICU delirium” at the 2023 American Delirium Society meeting
2022
- Nadia Lunardi presents a plenary session at the American Delirium Society meeting
- Nadia Lunardi presents at the Association of University Anesthesiologists Scientific Advisory Board session on “Delirium, dementia and the aging brain”
- Michal Jedrusiak receives The Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment PIA Travel Award at the 2022 American Delirium Society meeting
- Nadia Lunardi presents on “A novel mouse model for research on postoperative delirium” at the 2022 American Delirium Society meeting
2021
- Joanna Klos receives the first prize for best oral presentation at the UVa Visiting European Graduate Traineeship Program Symposium
- Hari Prasad Osuru receives the second prize for the Carl Lynch Award for Outstanding Faculty Research Presentation
- The Lunardi Lab is recognized among the “Best of ASA Meeting Abstracts for Basic Science”
2020
- Elzbieta Dulko receives the third prize for best oral presentation at the UVa Visiting European Graduate Traineeship Program Symposium
2019
- Ryan Sica receives the Douglas W. Eastwood Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology
- Meghana Illendula receives an Honorable Mention Award for “Outstanding Faculty Research Presentation” at the Department of Anesthesiology Research Symposium
2018
- The Lunardi Lab abstract is awarded with the “Kosaka Best of Meeting Abstract Award Finalist for Basic Science Research” at the International Anesthesia Research Society Annual Meeting
- Ryan Sica receives the best presenter Award for “Outstanding Faculty Research Presentation” at the Department of Anesthesiology Research Symposium
- Nadia Lunardi is among the “Best Reviewers of 2018 – Anesthesia & Analgesia Journal”
- Navya Atluri and Bianca Ferrarese receive an Honorable Mention Award for their poster presentation at the Department of Anesthesiology Research Symposium
2016
- The Lunardi Lab receives an Honorable Mention for the “Carl Lynch Award for Best Publication in Basic Science” at the Department of Anesthesiology Research Symposium