The ASAP Collaborative Research Network, a program of the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative being implemented through The Michael J. Fox Foundation, has awarded $8.9 million for the three-year study, “Redefining Parkinson’s disease pathophysiology mechanisms in the context of …
Since humans first landed on the moon in 1969, scientists have been fixated on the next “giant leap” for space exploration— a successful human mission to Mars.
Plans for Mars missions are well underway, as NASA hopes to send astronauts …
Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, of the Department of Neurobiology, is the recipient of the 2021 One Mind Nick LeDeit Rising Star Research Award. One Mind is a mental health nonprofit that conducts brain research and aims to transform mental illness …
For the first time, Neurobiology Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy has successfully developed an approach for identifying the proteins that exist inside different neurons in the brain. Kozorovitskiy is the Soretta and Henry Shapiro Research Professor of Molecular Biology.
Kozorovitskiy worked on …
The Chemistry of Life Processes Institute will host their third annual Biotech by the Lake Investor Summit on June 22, 2021. The theme of this year’s summit is Targeting Neurological Disorders. The online program will feature 17 academic, investment, …
Professor Catherine Woolley has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Woolley is the William Deering Chair in Biological Sciences in the department of neurobiology and associate …
The study, “Robustness and plasticity in Drosophila heat avoidance,” was published in the journal of Nature Communications on April 6, 2021. This research finds that fruit flies may be better drivers than autonomous cars. This study is timely, …
Tiffany Schmidt, professor of neurobiology, was awarded the 2020–21 Ver Steeg Award from The Graduate School.
Named for Clarence Ver Steeg, PhD, former Northwestern University Professor in History and Dean of The Graduate School from 1975 to 1986, …
The study “The irritant receptor TRPA1 mediates the mosquito repellent effect of catnip” was published in the journal Current Biology on March 4.
Professor Marco Gallio of the Department of Neurobiology discusses this collaborative research from Northwestern University and Lund …
Catherine Woolley, the William Deering Professor of Neurobiology, discusses how sex differences in the brain are misunderstood on the Cerebrum Podcast and in the The Dana Foundation’s Winter 2021 cover story in Cerebrum Magazine.
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