Mark Zylka, PhD, will serve as director and Ben Philpot, PhD, will serve as associate director of the UNC Neuroscience Center at the UNC School of Medicine. William Snider, MD, who has served as the center’s director for nearly 17 years, will step down from his leadership role, but will remain on faculty as professor of neurology, while also continuing his research.
Dr. Dichter’s groundbreaking work examined whether brain reward circuits are implicated in autism, as they are in other behavior disorders such as addiction, schizophrenia and depression. Read more.
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The 16th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium was held on October 8th at the Carolina Club. Attendees from the UNC Neuroscience community enjoyed a breakfast reception with the speakers, Joseph G. Gleeson, Yang Dan and Alcino Silva, three riveting talks followed by question-and-answer sessions, and a buffet luncheon at the conclusion.
The 16th Annual UNC Neuroscience Symposium will be held on October 8th at the Carolina Club featuring talks by Joseph G. Gleeson, Yang Dan and Alcino Silva.
Garret Stuber, PhD, was awarded the 2015 Gill Transformative Investigator Award from Indiana University for his contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience.