September 11, 2024, Filed Under: NewsSave the date: CARE Research Day 2025 – Friday, March 28th The CARE Research Day 2025 will be held in Austin on Friday March 28, 2025 with Dr. Edward Chang, MD from UCSF. Bookmark your agenda! Meanwhile we are setting up the following events and funding: The James Sulzer Travel Award – Fall 2024 for Undergraduate and Graduate Students ! Application… read more
September 9, 2024, Filed Under: NewsRegister to Senior Scientist: Research, Practice, and Telling the Story. October 17, 2024 Thursday, October 17, 2024 12 – 1 pm Register at bit.ly/S4Oct17 or contact Leta Moser for more information. Research improves thousands, if not millions, of peoples’ lives at a time. Join Dell Med’s Health Transformation Research Institute for the Senior Scientist Seminar Series (S4) to learn about the… read more
June 13, 2024, Filed Under: NewsHussein Alawieh Successfully Defended his PhD Thesis. Congratulations!! On June 12, 2024 Hussein Alawieh successfully defended his Phd thesis: “To Activate or Not to Activate? The Dual Role of Electrical Stimulation in Brain-Computer Interfaces” Let’s Party! We wish you all the best in your future career Detailed Thesis Abstract: Injuries affecting the central nervous system may disrupt… read more
May 27, 2024, Filed Under: NewsInsight: New study focuses on PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder Khan News May 24, 2024 / 05:03 PM CDT Understanding why some people develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and clinical depression, while others don’t , is a major challenge. New research from Dell Medical School at UT Austin is tackling the topic and providing potential avenues for therapeutics and biomarkers. Watch… read more
May 12, 2024, Filed Under: NewsNature Medicine: The Future of Brain–computer Interfaces in Medicine Growing interest in non-invasive brain–computer interfaces, rather than implants, might improve accessibility for patients, but resolution needs to be improved. There is a worldwide race for marketable medical devices that harness brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). So far, attention has largely focused on sensors implanted in the brain and connected to computers,… read more
April 20, 2024, Filed Under: NewsUniversal Brain-Computer Interface Lets People Play Games With Just Their Thoughts Imagine playing a racing game like Mario Kart, using only your brain to execute the complex series of turns in a lap. This is not a video game fantasy, but a real program that engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have created as part of research into brain-computer… read more
April 5, 2024, Filed Under: NewsMichela (Micky) Marinelli Awarded the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Rigor Champions Prize Michela (Micky) Marinelli was one in five people to receive the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Rigor Champions Prize for enhancing rigor in scientific research by promoting critical examination of how cognitive biases and human errors can influence scientific reasoning.
March 25, 2024, Filed Under: NewsRegister to The Oskar Fisher Lecture Series Featuring Keynote, Christopher Walsh, M.D., Ph.D: “You Contain Multitudes: Somatic Mutation and Genomic Mosaicism in the Human Brain in Development, Disease, and Degeneration”. April 11, 2024. Thursday, April 11, 2024 3 p.m. (CDT) Dell Medical School Health Learning Building 1501 Red River Street Austin, Texas Reception to follow. The Oskar Fischer Lecture Series features invited scholars working at the vanguard of new ideas on the mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment of dementing illnesses. The 11th lecture of… read more