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BCM Neuroscience in the News
Two faculty members in the Department of Neuroscience - Professor John Dani and Instructor, Jianrong Tang published their novel and important new findings in the journal Neuron. >> read more
Two graduate students in the Department of Neuroscience, Mr. Scott Wellnitz and Ms. Aislyn Nelson, working with Dr. Ellen Lumpkin, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, published a paper in Science on June 19, 2009 entitled, "Merkel cells are essential for light touch responses."
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The award from the National Institute of general medical Sciences at NIH for $1M will provide stipends, tuition and fee support, health insurance coverage and some travel funds and administrative support for graduate students in the Ph.D. program through 2014.
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Dr. Mauro Costa-Mattioli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience received a 2009 Searle Scholar's Award.>> read more
The American Academy of Pain Medicine and Pfizer Corporation have awarded a 2009 visiting professorship in pain medicine to the BCM Department of Neuroscience. >> read more
Several BCM medical students received highly competitive and prestigious awards from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to carry out research with BCM faculty. >> read more
Dr. Sam Wu, who holds a primary appointment as Professor of Ophthalmology and a secondary appointment as Professor of Neuroscience, was recognized today by receiving the prestigious Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). >> read more
Dr. Mauro Costa-Mattioli, new Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at BCM has been selected as the 2008 International Grand Prize winner of the Eppendorf-Science Prize in Neurobiology. >> read more
 Dr. Andreas Tolias, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at BCM was awarded the 2008 Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award. The $300,000 award runs from September of 2008 -August of 2011. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awards promote research in chemistry and the life sciences and particularly foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. >> read more
Dr. Ellen Lumpkin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and her colleagues recently published their latest research on the mechanisms whereby one of the least understood receptor cells transduces signals.
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 Assistant Professor Brooks King-Casas, Assistant Professor Terry Lohrenz and Professor P. Read Montague published what is likely to be a landmark study in the journal Science (vol. 321, pp.806-810, August 8, 2008) that describes how their use of interactive functional brain imaging (hyperscanning) with an economic exchange task detects an altered neurobiological process in a major brain illness – borderline personality disorder (BPD). >> read more
 Dr. Peter Saggau, Professor of Neuroscience at BCM and his research team including Gaddum Reddy from the Rice University Bioengineering program, Keith Kelleher from the University of Houston and Rudy Fink from BCM Neuroscience, published their work in Nature Neuroscience (vol. 11, June, 2008). >> read more
The Department of Defense awarded a major research consortium grant to Texas investigators through the Mission Connect Foundation to study mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). >> read more
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Neuroscience Department Researchers discover intrinsic brain dopamine signal facilitation of addiction and its influence on drug-taking associated memories.
Discovery of Merkel Cell Function published in Science by BCM Neuroscience Graduate Students and Faculty Member.
Dr. Mauro Costa-Mattioli receives 2009 Searle Scholar's Award.
on the cover of Pflug Arch Eur J Physiology