January 18, 2024

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


May 30, 2023

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…


May 4, 2023

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                              …


March 16, 2023

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…


March 2, 2023

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….


February 17, 2023

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….


August 4, 2022

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…


May 26, 2022

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…


March 3, 2022

Brain Night Returns!

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UTHealth Neuroscience Research Center welcomes back Brain Night for Kids, Thursday March 17 at the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science. Brain Night for Kids is part of international Brain…


January 20, 2022

Research in Dragoi lab on cortical populations published in Neuron

Research from the lab of Valentin Dragoi, PhD, Rochelle and Max Levit Distinguished Professor in the Neurosciences, studying neuronal interactions in visual and prefrontal cortical areas has been published in Neuron. First author for the paper, titled “High-order interaction explain the collective behavior…


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