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Thyme receives Mallinckrodt Grant
Brain development in zebrafish
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Mallinckrodt Grant to Summer Thyme will fund study of brain development in zebrafish
This avenue of basic research will aid understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders in humans. -
Pozzo-Miller - UAB's Featured Discovery
Our own faculty Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller and UAB GBS graduate Dr. Mary Phillips are highlighted in UAB's Featured Discovery!Read all about it in UAB SOM News.Congratulations to both of them and to their collaborators and colleagues involved in this study!
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Ventral hippocampal projections to the medial prefrontal cortex regulate social memory
The School of Medicine communications staff sat down with Dr. Pozzo-Miller to gain insights about his research, UAB, and the science community. -
Gross named a "top scientist"
Top Scientists
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New addiction and pain prevention center aims to rally researchers and community
UAB’s Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention will conduct research that can be developed and translated into better treatments for addiction and pain. -
Pozzo-Miller to chair FP-ND panel
Dr. Lucas Pozzo-Miller will serve as Chair of a grant review panel for a Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. These are vital programs that determine the merit of grant applications specific to DoD-funded topic areas.
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Thyme awarded Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship
Fellowship
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Parpura named fellow of American Physiological Society
Vladimir Parpura, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurobiology has been selected as a fellow of the American Physiological Society. -
New addiction and pain prevention center aims to rally researchers and community
Interdisciplinary center is focused on cutting-edge research that can be developed into better treatments — and helping junior faculty develop their own research programs. -
Two distinct circuits drive inhibition in the sensory thalamus of the brain
This research offers fundamental insights about sensory thalamic subnetworks and will enable powerful new strategies to probe behavioral and perceptual functions of these distinct circuits. -
A complex gene program initiates brain changes in response to cocaine
This work is a step forward in understanding early molecular changes that influence the development of addiction, and may have application to the role of similar gene programs that mediate other types of behavior, memory formation or neuropsychiatric disorders. -
Neuroengineering PhD Program
Please congratulate Dr. Lynn Dobrunz on final approval of the new Ph.D Program in Neuroengineering at UAB. It takes a multiple years to create a new graduate program/major.Dr. Dobrunz will serve as co-director of this new graduate program that is[…]
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‘Mentally a complete game changer’: Returning researchers explain how they reopened their labs
Three of the first scientists to return to campus in Phase I — plus the leader of a group that never left — share their emotions, lessons learned and 7 tips for organizing your unit’s re-entry. -
Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx Faculty Associations announced
The Office for Diversity and Inclusion has established two new faculty associations. -
Potential therapy in autism
Dr. Craig Powell and colleagues potentially have a new therapy in autism spectrum disorder. SHANK3
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Genetic rescue of SHANK3 is potential therapy in rare forms of autism spectrum disorder
A mouse model and previous studies suggest that genetic intervention in SHANK3-related ASD may be most effective earlier in development. -
“Essentials of Modern Neuroscience” written by UAB professors, bridges gap between basic and clinical neuroscience
The guide is unique in having separate, and extensive, basic versus clinical neuroscience sections, which support each other. -
2020 Dean's Award Winners - Lubin and Alexander (2)
Drs. Farah Lubin and Matthew Alexander are 2020 Dean's Award recipients. For the complete story visit: 2020 Awards
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Sixteen faculty members named winners of 2020 Dean’s Excellence Awards
Sixteen outstanding faculty members have been named recipients of the 2020 Dean’s Excellence Awards in the areas of teaching, research, service, mentorship, and diversity.