UNC Health is the only academic healthcare system in North Carolina and the South participating in the randomized trial, which aims to assess the safety and efficacy of a combination immunotherapy for newly diagnosed glioblastoma patients.

Katie Baldwin, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology and physiology in the UNC School of Medicine, received $1.5 million from the NIH to study white brain matter and its contribution to brain development, function, and debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis.

Led by scientists at UNC-Chapel Hill and UC-San Francisco, research reveals new non-coding genetic variants associated with Alzheimer’s disease functioning in microglia – brain cells already implicated in the progression of this often-fatal neurodegenerative condition. Yun Li, PhD, professor of genetics, is the lead UNC School of Medicine researcher.

Dominique Higgins, MD, PhD, led research into how a specialized diet can induce a new type of programmed cell death to help kill brain tumor cells.

The lab of Juan Song, PhD, and colleagues at the UNC School of Medicine, demonstrated the therapeutic potential of new neurons generated in adulthood for modulating the pathology and functional deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease using rodent models.

Gregory Scherrer, PharmD, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology and member of the UNC Neuroscience Center, received a Director’s Award for Excellence in Research, and Sarah Linnstaedt, PhD, associate professor of anesthesiology, earned an honorable mention for the Director’s Trailblazer award.

Led by Pew-Thian Yap, PhD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine created monthly infant brain atlases to help researchers analyze the developing brain to investigate neurological disorders and other conditions.

Michelle Itano, PhD, assistant professor in the UNC Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, is one of ten co-principal investigators who received a two-year grant called "Curated Imaging Science Education for Learners and Trainers."

The Danish neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard, MD, DMSc, professor in the department of neurology at the University of Rochester, will receive the Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize at a ceremony in March.

UNC School of Medicine researchers Sarah Cohen, PhD, and Mohanish Deshmukh, PhD, along with Stanford’s Serena Young, PhD, were selected for second-phase funding for the CZI Neurodegeneration Challenge Network.

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine led by Justin Wolter, PhD, and colleagues at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Queen Mary University of London, teamed up to publish a comprehensive analysis of what goes awry in brain cells lacking the sacsin protein.

UNC School of Medicine Graduate students Kimberly Lukasik and Maria Ortiz-Juza were among 51 students from around the country named as Gilliam Fellows by the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Tag: Neuroscience

New, Promising Clinical Trial for Glioblastoma Starting at UNC Health

Katie Baldwin Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to Study Brain White Matter

Researchers Connect Alzheimer’s-Associated Genetic Variants with Brain Cell Function

Researchers Leverage Cell Self-Destruction to Treat Brain Tumors

Scientists Enhance New Neurons to Restore Memory, Elevate Mood in Alzheimer’s Disease Research Model

Scherrer, Linnstaedt Earn NIH HEAL Initiative Honors

Researchers Unveil New Collection of Human Brain Atlases that Charts the Early Developing Brain in Fine Detail

Michelle Itano, PhD Receives CZI Grant to Help Train the Next Generation of Imaging Scientists

Nedergaard Named 21st Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize Recipient

Cohen, Deshmukh Selected for Second Round of CZI Funding

Scientists Reveal Role of Key Brain Protein in Childhood Movement Disorder

Lukasik, Ortiz-Juza Selected as HHMI Gilliam Fellows