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The UBC School of Biomedical Medical Engineering (SBME) and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) are excited to announce the recruitment of Dr. Manu Madhav.
As both a Core Member of the DMCBH and a Faculty Member in the SBME, Dr. Madhav will lead and encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration between scientists and research initiatives housed in these two units.
An important goal in multiple sclerosis (MS) research is determining how to repair or preserve myelin, the protective sheath covering nerve fibres which is damaged in people with the disease.
This is not an easy task, considering the exact process by which myelin is damaged is still not well understood. To get a better grasp on this, a team led by Dr. Jacqueline Quandt (pictured below) has been studying the role of ARNT2.
Dr. Larissa Kraus in Dr. Mark Cembrowski's lab has been awarded the Walter Benjamin fellowship from the German Research Foundation.
In the coming weeks, we will be profiling COVID-19 work and expertise from Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members. In this story we profile DMCBH researchers Drs. Raymond Lam, Jill Murphy and Erin Michalak, who received a CIHR grant to assess the mental health needs of high-risk groups in the context of COVID-19, and determine how to provide digital mental health care to these groups. Photo: APEC Digital Mental Health Members at a Roundtable in Singapore last year.
This article was originally published on the Michael Smith Laboratories website and has been slightly adapted. You can find he original article here.
The Michael Smith Laboratories and Department of Medical Genetics are pleased to announce that Dr. Freda Miller (pictured), a stem cell and developmental neurobiologist, will join UBC this fall.
In the coming weeks, we will be profiling COVID-19 work and expertise from Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members. In this story we profile DMCBH researcher Dr. Kurt Haas, Professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, who received a CIHR grant last week to support his COVID-19 research.
The main focus of the Haas lab has been to better understand autism, by studying how single nucleotide polymorphisms—substitutions of one nucleotide in the genome—change protein function in autism-associated genes.
Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose (pictured) has been awarded CIHR funding to investigate the possible impact of COVID-19 on cognition and the brain post-infection.
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Twelve students graduated from the Graduate Program in Neuroscience on June 17! You can see which students and some special videos by clicking here.
In the coming weeks, we will be profiling COVID-19 work and expertise from Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members. In this story we profile DMCBH researcher Dr. Terry Snutch, Professor in UBC's Department of Psychiatry and Canada Research Chair in Biotechnology and Genomics-Neurobiology.
Neurons born in adulthood continue to grow and develop much longer than previously thought, according to a new study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience.
