Curriculum changes for COVID-19 pandemic
Throughout the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about changes to everyday life through social distancing and various other safety measures. For students at McGovern Medical School, social distance measures have brought about wholesale changes to the curriculum designed to…
Dragoi’s pioneering research published in Nature Communications
Pioneering research on the study of complex functions of the brain from the lab of Valentin Dragoi, PhD, Rochelle and Max Levit Distinguished Professor in the Neurosciences, has been published in Nature Communications. His paper is entitled “Dynamic states of population activity…
Kharas Recipient of 2020 Dean’s Research Scholarship Award
The Graduate Student Education Committee at McGovern Medical School has named Natasha Kharas one of six students from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Science as a recipient of the 2020 Dean’s Research…
McGovern Time Capsules – David Marshak
In honor of McGovern Medical School’s 50th Anniversary, McGovern Time Capsules highlight the history of our medical school through first-hand accounts from the people who have contributed to a half-century of excellence.
McGovern Time Capsules – Nachum Dafny
In honor of McGovern Medical School’s 50th Anniversary, McGovern Time Capsules highlight the history of our medical school through first-hand accounts from the people who have contributed to a half-century of excellence.
Dragoi’s Visual Perception Research Published in Nature Communications
Members of the Dragoi Lab at McGovern Medical School may be one step closer to answering that question in their recent study titled “Integration of cortical population signals for visual perception,” published in Nature Communications. “We want to cure neurological diseases…
Dragoi Publishes Research on Brain Synergy
Valentin Dragoi, PhD, Sunny Nigam, PhD, and Sorin Pojoga, PhD, have their paper, “Synergistic Coding of Visual Information in Columnar Networks,” published in Neuron. Nigam, Pojoga, and Dragoi performed pioneering research in primary visual cortex to discover an additional operating principle…
Dragoi lab published in Nature Neuroscience reveals principles of neuronal communication
In their research, Neda Shahidi, PhD; Ariana Andrei, PhD; Ming Hu, PhD; and Valetin Dragoi, PhD investigated temporal coordination of neuronal spiking activity to determine if this particular action controls signal transmission and behavior. Visit the GSBS News site…
Zhang Wins Teaching Award
Han Zhang, MD, professor of neurobiology and anatomy, is the 2019 recipient of the John H. Freeman Award for Faculty Teaching. Chosen by the senior class, this is the sixth time Zhang has received the award, which is given annually to…
2019 Dean’s Excellence in Teaching
Congratulations to our faculty in winning the Dean’s Teaching Excellence award for 2019. An awards ceremony is scheduled for May 8th, 2019 in the 5th Floor Gallery.