November 19, 2020

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…


October 19, 2020

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…


September 14, 2020

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…


June 2, 2020

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…


June 1, 2020

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…


February 10, 2020

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.


January 16, 2020

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.


January 8, 2020

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…


October 15, 2019

Kharas Earns Terry J. Crow, Ph.D. Award

Ms. Natasha Kharas, MD/PhD candidate in the laboratory of Valentin Dragoi, PhD, in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, is the second recipient of the Terry J. Crow, PhD Scholarship in Neuroscience. Ms. Kharas received the scholarship for her outstanding…


September 5, 2019

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…


Pages