Director’s Report, Fall 2018 Welcome new faculty Deniz Atasoy , Assistant Professor of Pharmacology PhD, Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI The Atasoy Lab is focued on neural circuits that regulate feeding behavior and...
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UI officials, including President J. Bruce Harreld, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Interim Dean Joseph Kearney, and psychological and brain sciences faculty spoke at a groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 8 to celebrate the new building that will transform the department’s teaching and research, and...
UI doctors and researchers, including INI Director Ted Abel, work to shine light on the third of our lives we spend in the dark. ( read more )
The inaugural Iowa Neuroscience Institute Workshop, held Sept. 20-22 at the University of Iowa, brought together more than 60 scientists, all with research interest in the cerebellum. “Cerebellum in Bipolar Disorder & Other Neuropsychiatric Diseases” included two days of workshop presentations...
Three INI scientists have received NARSAD Young Investigator grants from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for projects focused on schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, and depression: Marie Gaine, PhD, assistant research scientist; Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD, assistant professor of...
University of Iowa stroke researchers, led by INI's Enrique Leira, MD, have received a five-year, $1.5 million competitive grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health to continue to run a research infrastructure of 12 hospitals in Iowa, Nebraska, and North Dakota aiming to generate and...
The University of Iowa is expanding its role in a network of neurological research centers funded by the National Institutes of Health. The NIH announced a renewal of funding for Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials, or NeuroNEXT, a research program that helps streamline phase II...
The Parkinson’s Foundation has named UI Hospitals and Clinics a center of excellence and adds it to a global network of 45 select academic medical centers. Along with UI Hospitals and Clinics, two other additions to the network this year are the Cleveland Clinic and the University of South Carolina...
In an effort to spur greater collaboration between bioscience researchers at Iowa State University and the University of Iowa, the two schools have awarded seed grants to help investigators build teams, collect data, grow projects and win grants. Iowa Neuroscience Institute faculty members Aaron...
The Iowa Neuroscience Institute’s new Neural Circuits and Behavior Core (NCBC) is open to support members of the University of Iowa community. The NCBC was created to enable UI researchers to investigate neural circuit function in health and disease using tools that are often not available within...