Center NewsSite News 4/30/12: Stanford and MIT scientists win Perl-UNC Neuroscience PrizeThe Perl prize carries a $10,000 award and is given to recognize a seminal achievement in neuroscience. Past recipients have included four subsequent winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. 4/19/12: UNC neuroscientists awarded $2 million to study roots of cognitive disabilitiesUNC researchers will attempt to understand the cognitive disabilities in patients with RAS/MARK syndromes. 3/23/12: Spencer Smith recieves Career Development Award from Human Frontier Science ProgramMarch 2012 - Assistant professor Spencer Smith receives a Career Development Award from the Human Frontier Science Program, an international organization funded by the governments of the G7 nations. 3/22/12: Stuber Lab publishes paper in Neuron - Study shines light on brain mechanism that controls reward enjoymentIn the March 22nd issue of Neuron, a research article fro the Stuber lab shows that activation of VTA GABA neurons can disrupt reward-related behavior by their direct regulation of neighboring dopamine neurons. 9/26/11: Dr. Tom Kash has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
6/30/11: Dr. Stuber is published in Nature for 'optogenetics' to control reward-seeking behaviorThe findings suggest that therapeutics targeting the path between two critical brain regions, the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, represent potential treatments for addiction and other neuropsychiatric diseases. NIH Eureka grant awarded to UNC neuroscientist Eva AntonAnton, a member of the Neuroscience Center at UNC and the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, was awarded the grant for his research in the mapping of neuronal placement in the developing cerebral cortex. 1/28/11: Snider Lab publishes in NeuronResearchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a crucial function for a key player in the development of the nervous system. They found that this player — a protein called Erk – is necessary for nerve fibers to be wrapped with an insulating substance called myelin, which allows messages to be sent from the brain to the peripheral limbs and back again. 1/27/11: Bhat Lab publishes article in NeuronNew research from the Bhat lab describes a key molecular mechanism in nerve fibers that ensures the rapid conductance of nervous system impulses. The findings appear online Jan. 27, 2011 in the journal Neuron. |
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