Neuro News

News and events of the SNRI and the IU neuroscience community

Welcome! New Faculty to the Institute.

Fall 2008
Dr. Xiaoming Jin, joins the Stark from the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine.  Jin's research focuses on studying the organization and plasticity of cortical circuits, and the mechanisms of epileptogenesis following traumatic brain injury. Please see Dr. Jin's webpage for more information on his research activities.

Dr. Jinhui Chen, joins the Stark from the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at University of Kentucky. Jinhui's research focuses on one neural stem cell fate determination in the adult brain and neuroregeneration following traumatic brain injury. Please see Dr. Chen's webpage for more details.

The recipient of the Mari Hulman George Chair of Neuroscience Research is Dr. Xiao-Ming Xu. Dr. Xu joined the Stark from the University of Louisville to lead the Head and Spinal Cord Injury Group here on the fourth floor of the Institute. Xu holds a joint professorship with IUSM's Department of Neurological Surgery and his research focus is to study the mechanisms underlying spinal cord injury (SCI) and develop repair strategies to improve anatomical reorganization and functional recovery in animal models of SCI, eventually translating these results to clinical treatments of human spinal cord injuries.

Alexander Niculescu awarded Theodore Reich Award from the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics (August 2007). Dr. Alexander Niculescu, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Neuroscience, received the Reich Award, which is given annually to an investigator younger than 40 years of age. Niculescu will present a paper at the Congress on Overlap Among Psychotic Disorders and Chair a symposium at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in New York City in October, 2007. To read more on Dr. Reich's distinguished achievements, go to the following link.