Research News
Neurobiology training faculty named a Duke Health Scholar
November 2, 2016
Nicole Calakos has been named a Duke Health Scholar. This inaugural program aims to support...
Discussing science with the POTUS
October 14, 2016
Kafui Dzirasa spoke on the Presidential Panel on Brain Science and Medical Information alongside...
Graduate student awarded $140k grant from Huntington's Disease Society of America
October 11, 2016
Neurobiology graduate student Steven Marinero was awarded $139,715 from the Huntington's Disease...
A tour de (tiny) force
October 4, 2016
From the blood coursing through our veins to the fly landing on our arm, we sense forces both...
Scientists track unexpected mechanisms of memory
September 28, 2016
Do you remember Simone Biles’s epic gymnastics floor routine that earned her a fifth Olympic medal...
Two graduate students awarded Bill Hall Prize for Excellence in Graduate Research
September 27, 2016
On Friday, September 23, Duke Neurobiology awarded the Bill Hall Prize for Excellence in Graduate...
Brain Connections More Sophisticated than Thought
September 9, 2016
In 1959, a scientist named Edward Gray showed that the miniscule gaps between neurons where...
Nicolelis lab-created brain-machine interface help paraplegic patients regain some feeling
August 11, 2016
Eight people who have spent years paralyzed from spinal cord injuries have regained partial...
Yiyang Gong selected as a 2016 Vallee Foundation Young Investigator Awardee
August 12, 2016
Associate professor Yiyang Gong has been selected as a 2016 Vallee Foundation Young Investigator...
Fan Wang and Kafui Dzirasa receive $1 million award from Keck Foundation to research human consciousness
August 10, 2016
Two Duke University brain researchers who want to solve the long-standing puzzle of human...
Liedtke talks TRPV4 in Dublin
August 1, 2016
Wolfgang Liedtke, MD, PhD, traveled to Dublin on Friday, for a joint meeting of the American...
Research Points to a Fast-Acting Drug for OCD
July 18, 2016
A single chemical receptor in the brain is responsible for a range of symptoms in mice that are...
Gong Named 2016 Beckman Young Investigator
July 18, 2016
Congratulations are in order for Yiyang Gong, who has been named a 2016 Beckman Young Investigator...
Mooney Lab Paper in Neuron, "A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations"
July 8, 2016
How do forebrain and brainstem circuits interact to produce temporally precise and reproducible...
Miguel Nicolelis Wins Emerging Technologies Award
July 1, 2016
Professor of Neurobiology Miguel Nicolelis, Ph.D. has been awarded the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies for his seminal contributions to brain-machine interfaces.