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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Embryonic stem cells — those revered cells that give rise to every cell type in the body — just got another badge of honor. If they suffer damage that makes them a threat to the developing embryo, they swiftly fall on their swords for the greater...

The 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.

UNC researchers will attempt to understand the cognitive disabilities in patients with RAS/MARK syndromes.

March 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.

In 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.

Dr. Flavio Frohlich received the NC TraCS $5k-$50k grant entitled “Enhancing Cortical Dynamics with Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Humans”. NC TraCS is the academic home of the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA).

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

Dr. Stuber’s RO1, “Midbrain neural circuit elements that underlie cue-reward associations” was just funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In experiments funded by this grant, we will be combining optogenetics and voltammetric techniques to determine which excitatory and inhibitory projection to the midbrain are responsible for modulating the...

UNC STUDY COULD LEAD TO TREATMENT FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME Contact: Les Lang, 919-9232563; (mobile) 919-923-2563; llang@med.unc.edu University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers 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...

Newbern, a postdoc in William Snider’s lab at the UNC Neuroscience Center, has been awarded a Pathway to Independence-Career Development Award (K99/R00) by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH. The award is part of an NIH-wide effort to support promising young scientists in transitioning to...