UCSB NRI

10/22/2015

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015918/brain-trust

An innovative neuroscience research program at UCSB crosses disciplinary lines

10/01/2015

https://www.nri.ucsb.edu/news/2015/new-treatment-macular-degeneration-0

A patient receives the first human eye cell transplant developed by a UCSB neuroscientist who founded the London Project to Cure Blindness By Julie Cohen

04/30/2015

Congrats to NRI Researcher Megan Valentine!

Megan Valentine aims to strengthen research ties between UCSB and ESPCI ParisTech

02/25/2015

NRI researchers examine a shape-shifting protein in the brain to learn more about how form affects function - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2015/015037/body-s-transformers .dE7xB6Ww.dpuf

Like the shape-shifting robots of “Transformers” fame, a unique class of proteins in the human body also has the ability to alter their configuration

02/18/2015

A region in Colombia has long been cursed with Alzheimer's. Now doctors there and in Arizona are using the group to test an experimental treatment.

10/07/2014

Big congratulations to NRI researcher Denise Montell!

Denise Montell will explore whether anastasis (from the Greek meaning “rising to life”) plays a role in cancer

07/21/2014

An implantable biosensor may be the key to discovering the neurochemistry of drug addiction

07/03/2014

Congratulations Pete! http://www.stemcell.ucsb.edu/news/2014/06/04/co-director-coffey-appointed-fellow-of-royal-society-of-arts/

Co-Director of the UCSB Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering, Pete Coffey, has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in England. In their own words, the RSA is “an enlightenment organization committed to finding innovative practi…

06/19/2014

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014172/which-way

Researchers in Denise Montell’s lab used fruit-fly ovaries to uncover how E-cadherin guides collective cell migration

06/19/2014

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014271/exploring-how-part-nervous-system-develops

Patrick Keeley spent years analyzing different retinal cell types and found a remarkable degree of variation in cell number across 30 mouse strains

06/19/2014

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014239/cure-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-requires-parallel-effort

For people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, the rate of progress in developing effective therapeutics has been unacceptably slow

06/18/2014

Congrats Roxanne! http://www.stemcell.ucsb.edu/news/2014/06/09/roxanne-croze-chosen-to-attend-the-64th-annual-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting-in-germany/

Roxanne Croze, graduate student researcher in the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering, was chosen as one of nineteen top student researchers in the U.S. and will convene with Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany. Roxanne will be among other student researchers from 80 different countries to p…