Dr. Valentin Dragoi To Receive EUREKA Award From NIH
Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has been selected to receive one of the National Institutes of Health’s EUREKA Awards. The EUREKA Program targets investigators who are testing novel,…
Proleta Datta, Cameron Jeter Win University Writing Awards
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy graduate students Cameron Jeter and Proletta Datta have placed 2nd and 3rd, respectively in this year’s Writing Science for the Lay Public contest. For doctoral students in The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical…
Cameron Jeter To Receive SfN Graduate Student Travel Award
Cameron Jeter, neuroscience graduate student affiliated with the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy’s Sereno Lab, has been awarded one of the 2009 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Chapters Graduate Student Travel Awards. The award honors outstanding graduate students nominated by their…
Yili Zhang Awarded Training Program Fellowship By NLM
Yili Zhang, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department’s Byrne Lab, has been awarded a Fellowship by the National Library of Medicine Training Program (NLMTP) through the W.M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training. One goal of the Keck center,…
NIH Director Collins Meets With SfN Postdocs
Dr. Francis Collins, the new director of the National Institutes of Health, and the directors of three major NIH institutes, Story Landis (NINDS), Tom Insel (NIMH) and Nora Volkow (NIDA) had a continental breakfast with 12 neuroscience postdoctoral fellows during…
NRC 15th Annual Public Forum On Childhood Brain Diseases Set
UT Neuroscience Event Will Discuss Autism, ADHD and More Busting myths and increasing knowledge about common disorders of the developing brain will be the focus of a Saturday, Feb. 6 public forum of the Neuroscience Research Center (NRC) at The University of…
Proleta Datta Wins Student Research Achievement Award
Proleta Datta, a student in Dr. Ruth Heidelberger’s laboratory won the Student Research Achievement Award for the best poster in the Exocytosis and Endocytosis subgroup at the National Biophysical Society meeting held in San Francisco this February. Her poster presentation…
Dr Zhang Wins 2010 John Freeman Faculty Teaching Award
Han Zhang, M.D., has been selected to receive the 2010 John Freeman Faculty Teaching Award. This is the 3rd time Dr Zhang has received this award. The award is chosen by the senior class each year to recognize Medical School’s…
Dr Heidelberger Profiled In Biophysicist Newsletter
Ruth Heidelberger, M.D., Ph.D., is the subject of a feature article in the current edition of the Biophysical Society Newsletter. The article, “Biophysicist In Profile”, provides a snapshot of Dr Heidelberger’s career, the influence of her parents and the impact…
Dr Valentin Dragoi Receives Prestigious Pioneer Award From NIH
Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, is one of 17 recipients recently selected to receive the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award. The award will…