Cain named 2020 Distinguished Alumnus for Research
Dr. Lisa D. Cain, Adjunct Professor in Neurobiology & Anatomy at McGovern Medical School, is named the University of Mississippi, School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences (SGSHS) 2020 Distinguished Alumnus for Research. The 14th, annual event was scheduled…
Protein ‘Chameleon’ Colors Long-Term Memory
Scientists at Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) uncovered new clues in the protein CPEB3 as part of their dogged pursuit of the mechanism that allows humans to have long-term memories. The study by Rice…
NIH BRAIN Initiative Award
Studying how neurons work together in order to better understand neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and autism spectrum disorders, researchers led by John Byrne, PhD, at UTHealth have been awarded more than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health…
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…