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Please join Neuroscience Center leadership in congratulating Dr. Nicolas Pégard on being selected as a 2021 Beckman Young Investigator!

June 11, 2021
Full details of the announcement can be found on the Beckman Foundation Website. The funded project title is : Bidirectional Neuroprosthetics with Miniature Optical Brain Machine Interfaces Optical brain machine interfaces use light to monitor and manipulate activity, but current technologies cannot reliably communicate with more than a few dozen neurons...

Scherrer Earns Three Grants for Innovative Pain, Opioid Research

June 3, 2021
The lab of Greg Scherrer, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, investigates the precise ways in which opioids interact with brain mechanisms and then, armed with a better understanding of the underlying biology, the lab pursues new ways to block pain without causing significant...

Stein Lab Publishes Paper in Nature Neuroscience

May 21, 2021
Dr. Jason Stein (Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics) and colleagues have published a manuscript in Nature Neuroscience (20 May 2021) titled “Cell-type specific effects of genetic variation on chromatin accessibility during human neuronal differentiation”. This study, led by Dr. Dan Liang as part of her dissertation research, was focused on...

Multiple Neuroscience Center faculty awarded NC TraCS Grants

May 6, 2021
The labs of Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, Jason Stein, and Hyejung Wong were each awarded $50k pilot grants from NC TraCs. Jose Rodríguez-Romaguera, PhD will be collaborating with Rebecca Grzadzinski, PhD (Asst Professor, Psychiatry/Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities) in a project entitled “Atypical Social Arousal as an Early Marker of ASD.” Jason...