Education Pathway program proves access can cultivate scientists By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Sep. 11, 2023 NEUROCITY alumni pursue research at the University of Rochester following the ten-week summer program that puts undergraduate students from historically marginalized groups in labs across the ...
Research Grant Boosts Drive to Transform Treatment Landscape for Rare Neurological Disorders By Mark Michaud Aug. 28, 2023 New funding will extend URMC's key role in national research network just a new gene therapies or neuromuscular and other disorders are emerging.
Research URMC Clinical Researchers Pave the Way for New Huntington’s Drug By Mark Michaud Aug. 21, 2023 The FDA has approved valbenazine as a treatment for Huntington’s disease chorea. A team of URMC researcher provided scientific, technical, logistical, and operational support for the phase 3 study ...
Research Wired for research By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Aug. 17, 2023 A biomedical engineering student explores how the brain processes speech syntax—and discovers the benefits of conducting research as an undergraduate.
People Postdoctoral Spotlight: Allison Murphy, PhD By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 24, 2023 Allison Murphy, PhD (’23), a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Farran Briggs, PhD, received a doctoral degree in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Her ...
People Faculty Q&A: Lars A. Ross, PhD By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 24, 2023 Lars A. Ross, PhD, is a research assistant professor of Imaging Sciences and Neuroscience at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He came to University of Rochester Medical Center in late ...
Research Protecting the vulnerable, informing the future By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 24, 2023 This is not another story about COVID. This is a story about how a group of scientists—including a neuroscientist, virologist, and nephrologist—and school leadership rolled up their sleeves, stepped ...
Research URMC researcher receives $8.3 million to study chronic pain and the brain By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jul. 19, 2023 Understanding the role of chronic pain in the brain could transform treatment and care for a condition that inflicts more than 20 percent of US adults. An associate professor of Psychiatry at URMC ...
Research Trading Sickness for Health: Swapping Brain Cells Points to New Huntington's Therapies By Mark Michaud Jul. 17, 2023 New study answers important questions about the viability of treatments that seek to replace diseased and aged cells in the central nervous system with healthy ones.
Research An Unexpected Doorway into the Ear Opens New Possibilities for Hearing Restoration By Mark Michaud Jun. 28, 2023 An international team of researchers has developed a new method to deliver drugs into the cochlea, repair inner ear hair cells, and restore hearing in deaf mice.
