2021 UTHealth Neuroscience Research Center Video Contest
To promote brain awareness within the Houston community, especially for grade school children and their families, the UTHealth Neuroscience Research Center (NRC) is hosting a Brain Awareness Video Contest open to UTHealth graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Prizes (awarded to…
Cadavers Honored Through Virtual Memorial Led by Medical Students Class of 2024
Marking the completion of gross anatomy, the Class of 2024 honored those who donated their bodies to medical education at the annual Cadaver Memorial Service at McGovern Medical School Jan. 19. The 2021 ceremony was presented virtually to accommodate the…
Two NBA Faculty Earn STAR Awards
Two members of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Andrea K.H. Stavoe, PhD and Valentin Dragoi, PhD, are among six McGovern Medical School faculty who recently earned the University of Texas System’s STAR Awards. The UT System Board of Regents Created the…
Research in Dragoi lab on unconscious stimuli published in Nature Communications and awarded 5-year NIH funding
A recent grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help fund research for the Dragoi Lab to study how unconscious information impacts brain activity and daily behavior. The grant is the result of research published in Nature Communications titled, “Cortical…
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…