Panza Lab

🎉 Congratulations to our graduate student, Sania Bashir, on being awarded the Graduate Professional Scholarship!

The Graduate Professional Scholarship is a competitive award that recognizes outstanding graduate students and provides tuition support to help them continue their academic and research endeavors.

We're incredibly proud of Sania for this well-earned accomplishment and are excited to see all she continues to achieve. Please join us in congratulating her on this milestone! 👏

🎉 Congratulations to Michael Allen as he begins an exciting new chapter!

As Michael wraps up his time in our lab, we'd like to congratulate him on receiving the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) Scholarship and wish him the very best as he heads to medical school and begins his journey with the U.S. Air Force.

Thank you for your hard work and contributions to the lab. We are grateful to have been part of your journey and can't wait to see all that you accomplish. Congratulations, Michael, and best of luck!

🎉 Congratulations to Gargi Gajkeshwar on presenting her research at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)!

We're proud of Gargi for sharing her work through multiple poster presentations and representing our lab with confidence and professionalism. Opportunities like UROP allow students to communicate their research, engage with the broader scientific community, and continue developing as researchers.

Congratulations, Gargi, on an outstanding job!

Congratulations to Lexi Soltesz on receiving the Thomas C. Rumble University Graduate Fellowship for the 2026-2027 academic year!

The Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship supports outstanding Ph.D. students and recognizes their academic achievement, research excellence, and continued progress toward their doctoral training goals.

We are incredibly proud of Lexi and this well-deserved recognition of her hard work and dedication. Congratulations, Lexi! 🎉

If you or someone you know has a motor incomplete spinal cord injury and are in the Detroit metropolitan area, please consider our clinical trial! Perhaps you will be one of the last four people we need to complete this research study.

Study flyer with contact info linked in comments.

The Panza Lab had an awesome time at Top Golf to support the United Spinal Association of Michigan!

Lexi and Jess had a great time teaching high schoolers about hand function and spinal cord injury at Science Fair with a Twist!

ComSCICon 2025 🦣
On Saturday, Jess attended the Communicating Science workshop series for graduate students, located at the UVM Museum of Natural History! 🦖🐋🦠

We are 6 people away from completing our clinical trial in spinal cord injury research!

Michigan Disability Empowerment Conference 2025 💫
Thank you to for organizing and having us there! Gargi and Annabelle chatted with lots of attendees about our study and made a furry friend! 🐕‍🦺❤️