The grant from the NIH/NIDDK will support a project to collect and analyze data from hundreds of Parkinson’s patients over five years. Professor Xiaoxi Zhuang, PhD (Neurobiology and Neurology) is one of the co-investigators.
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Dr. Palmer (OBA) is one of the researchers pursuing risky, novel ideas that will each receive up to $2.5 million. She will study how human computational capacity is both limited and expanded by our ancestral history examining both the brain’s neural networks and biochemical networks within single cells.
Freedman succeeds S. Murray Sherman, who has been chair since 2006.
Matthew Kaufman, assistant professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, has developed a new algorithm with myriad potential applications in robotics, aerospace, healthcare, and more.
Study from the Kaufman Lab adds a geometric spin to understanding how activity in the motor cortex corresponds to reaching movements.
Szuchet was a pioneering multiple sclerosis researcher and trailblazer for women in academia who served on the UChicago faculty for 45 years.
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