Jalloul Wins 2024 Crow Scholarship Award
Dounya Jalloul, PhD candidate in the laboratory of Michael Beierlein, PhD, professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, is the 2024 recipient of the Terry J. Crow, PhD, Scholarship in Neuroscience. Jalloul received the scholarship for her outstanding scholastic…
Beierlein Earns 2024 McGovern Teaching Award
Students selected Michael Beierlein, PhD, as the recipient of the 2024 John P. McGovern Award for Outstanding Teaching. The award recognizes excellence in teaching based on the following criteria: knowledge of the subject, interest in and enthusiasm for teaching, interest…
Remembering First Patients
Students from the Class of 2027 honor their first patients during the McGovern Medical School Cadaver Memorial Service, Jan. 10. First-year students hold the service after completing their Gross Anatomy course. See more images on the MMS Website
Hulsebosch chosen for Teaching Award
Claire E. Hulsebosch, PhD, professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, is the 2023 recipient of the John H. Freeman Award for Faculty Teaching. Chosen by the senior class, the John H. Freeman Award recognizes the McGovern Medical School’s outstanding…
2023 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the 2023 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards winners in NBA John Broussard Len Cleary Nachum Dafny Claire Hulsebosch Nobuhide Kobori Han Zhang Jing Zhao …
Debes and Dragoi Published in Science
Recent research from the lab of Valentin Dragoi, PhD, Rochelle and Max Levitt Distinguished Professor in the Neurosciences, revealing for the first time that cortical feedback projections carry attentional signals to individual neurons and cell populations in the visual cortex, has been…
Byrne Earns NINDS 2023 Javits Award
John Byrne, PhD, professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, associate dean for Research, June and Virgil Waggoner Chair, director of the UTHealth Houston Neuroscience Center, is a recipient of the 2023 Javits Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke….
Research from the Dragoi Lab Published in Nature Communications
Recent research from the lab of Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D. on the adaptive capacity of visual cortical populations has been published in the January edition of Nature Communications. First author for the paper is Sunny Nigam, Ph.D., postdoctoral research fellow in the Dragoi Lab….
Dr. Dragoi and the Dragoi Lab Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Recent research from the lab of Valentin Dragoi, PhD has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers injected a viral construct into the visual cortex to render neurons sensitive to blue light and hence increase their responses…
Han Zhang Chosen for John H. Freeman Award for Faculty Teaching
Han Zhang, MD, professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, is the 2022 recipient of the John H. Freeman Award for Faculty Teaching. Chosen by the senior class, this is the seventh time Zhang has received the award, which is…