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Center News:

• 5/14/12: Perl / UNC Neuroscience Prize and Lecture was held at the Carolina Club
  Dr. Karl Deisseroth accepted and gave a lecture for the Perl / UNC Neuroscience Prize on May 14th at the Carolina Club.
• 4/19/12: UNC Neuroscientists awarded $2 million to study Roots of Cognitive Disabilities
  UNC researchers will attempt to understand the cognitive disabilities in patients with RAS / MAPK syndromes.
• 3/23/12: Spencer Smith Receives Career Development Award from Human Frontier Science Program
  Dr. 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: Study Shines Light on Brain Mechanism that Controls Reward Enjoyment
  The Stuber lab published in Neuron how to manipulate brain wiring to identify inner workings of reward enjoyment.
• 1/12/12: UNC Neuroscientists Publish in Nature
  Neuroscientists used a type of drug to awaken a dormant gene in mouse neurons and in living mice, thereby identifying a potential treatment strategy for doing the same in people with Angelman’s syndrome (AS), a developmental disorder related to autism.
• 1/9/12: Garret Stuber RO1 Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
  Dr. Stuber's RO1 "Midbrain neural circuit elements that underlie cue-reward associations" is now funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• 12/15/11: Ben Philpot and Mark Zylka received a dual-PI R01
  Faculty members Ben Philpot and Mark Zylka received a dual-PI R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study drugs that regulate expression of Ube3a, a ubiquitin protein ligase that is mutated in Angelman syndrome.
• 11/1/11: Jason Newbern in Dr. William Snider's lab receives NIH Career Development Award
  Jason Newbern has been awarded a Pathway to Independence-Career Development Award (K99) by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH.
• 10/13/11: The 12th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium
  The UNC Neuroscience Symposium was held on Oct. 13th at the Carolina Club in Chapel Hill.  There were over 275 scientists in attendance.
• 9/26/11: Dr. Tom Kash has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  Dr. Kash is one of the 94 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
• 6/30/11: Garret Stuber is published in Nature for 'optogenetics' to control reward-seeking behavior
  The findings suggest that therapeutics targeting the path between two critical brain regions, the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, represent potential treatment for addiction and other neuropsychiatric diseases.

• 6/22/11: NIH Eureka Grant Awarded to UNC Neuroscientist Eva Anton
  Dr. Anton was awarded the grant for his research in the mapping of neuronal placement in the developing cerebral cortex.

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