neurosciences

Ask people about Madeleine “Maddie” Eiss and one of the first words you’ll hear is “fierce.” It reflected her grit and competitive nature on the tennis court—and, even more, her commitment to those lucky enough to call her a friend. “When it came to a tennis match you could always count on her to…

An article by Jon Niemi and other lab members from CWRU School of Medicine neurosciences department was published by peer-reviewed neuroscience journal eNeuro in February. Niemi and colleagues’ article, “The Conditioning Lesion Response in Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons Is Inhibited in Oncomodulin…

The Department of Neurosciences invites community members to attend the next Frontiers in Biological Sciences Lecture Series with speaker Leslie B. Vosshall Wednesday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. ET via Zoom. Vosshall, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Robin Chemers Neustein…

The speed at which Ashley Nemes-Baran has connected with her students is almost unheard of. Nemes-Baran, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosciences, started teaching at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine just last fall. Not only is Nemes-Baran new to Case Western…

The Case Western Reserve University community is invited to attend the next Frontiers in Biological Sciences Lecture Series event, hosted by the Department of Neurosciences, Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 4 p.m. via Zoom.  Catherine Dulac, the Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard…

Case Western Reserve roboticist Roger Quinn, neuroscientist Hillel Chiel to lead $8 million, five-year National Science Foundation NeuroNex Network project seeking next level of control of neuromechanical systems A pair of longtime collaborators and biorobotic pioneers at Case Western Reserve…

Case Western Reserve University will offer a new bachelor of science degree in neuroscience beginning fall semester 2020. Developed jointly by the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine, the undergraduate program is…

A research article co-written by Alicia Vagnozzi, graduate student in CWRU’s Department of Neuroscience, has been published in an issue of eLife. Vagnozzi’s article, titled “Phrenic-specific transcriptional programs shape respiratory motor output,” details research she and her colleagues…

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher, Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon collaborate on three-year project, aided by $600,000 grant A GPS map to guide neural navigation devices developed by a Case Western Reserve University cancer researcher has shown 90% accuracy in…

Anthony Jack, associate professor of philosophy and assistant professor of neurosciences and neurology, will present “The Mind's Essential Tension: How Neuroscience Can and Must Drive a New Renaissance” at the next Science Café Cleveland event. His talk will be held Monday, Nov. 11, from 7 to 8…