Research Transforming Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 29, 2024 The University of Rochester Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center is transforming the landscape of exploration.
People Faculty Q&A: Archan Ganguly, PhD By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 26, 2024 Archan Ganguly, PhD, is an assistant professor of Neuroscience at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His research aims to understand how proteins essential for synaptic communication between ...
Research Researchers find possible neuromarker for ‘juvenile-onset’ Batten disease By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 8, 2024 New research suggests an easy-to-measure brain process may be a target or biomarker in measuring treatment outcomes in clinical trials for patients with Batten disease.
Research Researchers find neurons work as a team to process social interactions By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Nov. 27, 2023 Researchers have discovered that a part of the brain associated with working memory and multisensory integration, may also play an important role in how the brain processes social cues.
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.
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 Iron & the brain: Where and when neurodevelopmental disabilities may begin during pregnancy By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Mar. 6, 2023 The cells that make up the human brain begin developing long before the physical shape of the brain has formed. This early organizing of a network of cells plays a major role in brain health ...
Research Wiggles & wings: The model systems transforming neuroscience By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Jan. 27, 2023 Genetic model organisms are truly invaluable to the field of neuroscience. Many of the discoveries made using C. elegans and Drosophila apply throughout the animal kingdom, and this research has led ...
Research A serendipitous discovery and the choreographed dance of fragile X research By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 18, 2022 Fragile X syndrome is the most common known single-gene cause of inherited IDDs, including autism. Scientists know the misstep in this syndrome is in the gene responsible for making a protein ...