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Edwina Kwakye-Gyamfi

Nadja Zeltner is an associate professor in UGA’s Center for Molecular Medicine and the principal investigator on a project that could help improve treatment of patients suffering from familial dysautonomia, a rare genetic disease that can cause developmental delays, frequent pneumonia and other debilitating challenges. The findings were published in a recent issue of “Nature Communications.”

 Biology August 26, 2025

From lab to startup: Zeltner founds NeelaCell Tx to advance genipin research

Image of a person pumping hand sanitizer into their hands.

 New Materials August 15, 2025

UGA researchers develop alternative to alcohol-based hand sanitizers

Meet the Tapir Valley tree frog, measuring just 2 centimeters and categorized as a critically endangered species in the journal Zootaxa. Thought to exist only in a single wetland in Costa Rica, it was first identified in 2018 by herpetologist Donald Varela-Soto, who discovered a male of the species that year. (Photo: Twan Leenders)

 Ecology June 26, 2025

Sounds of survival: A grad student’s quest to protect the Tapir Valley tree frog