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.
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…
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…
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…
Dragoi lab published in Nature Neuroscience reveals principles of neuronal communication
In their research, Neda Shahidi, PhD; Ariana Andrei, PhD; Ming Hu, PhD; and Valetin Dragoi, PhD investigated temporal coordination of neuronal spiking activity to determine if this particular action controls signal transmission and behavior. Visit the GSBS News site…
Zhang Wins Teaching Award
Han Zhang, MD, professor of neurobiology and anatomy, is the 2019 recipient of the John H. Freeman Award for Faculty Teaching. Chosen by the senior class, this is the sixth time Zhang has received the award, which is given annually to…
2019 Dean’s Excellence in Teaching
Congratulations to our faculty in winning the Dean’s Teaching Excellence award for 2019. An awards ceremony is scheduled for May 8th, 2019 in the 5th Floor Gallery.
Donate Life Month: The Willed Body Program
April is National Donate Life Month. This is a time to recognize the need that many patients have for replacement organs. It is also a time to express gratitude to those who chose to meet that need through the process…
Natasha Kharas Receives NIH Fellowship
Graduate student Natasha Kharas from the lab of Valentin Dragoi, has received a three-year, pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Eye Institute for her project titled, “The effects of sleep on neuronal coding in cortical layers and behavioral performance.” Kharas’s research focuses on…
Dash to lead Neurobiology & Anatomy
Dean Barbara J. Stoll has announced the appointment of Pramod Dash, Ph.D. as the term chair for the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, effective immediately. Dash is professor and the Nina and Michael Zilkha Distinguished Chair in Neurodegenerative Disease Research….