Department of Neuroscience Professor, Dr. Ari Rosenberg, recently received the Retina Research Foundation Edwin & Dorothy Gamewell Professorship. This professorship is awarded annually to an outstanding member of the UW-Madison McPherson Eye Institute, sponsored by …
2025
Moore Awarded Alzheimer’s Association Grant
Dr. Darcie Moore, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, has been awarded a research grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to perform in vivo live imaging of reactive astrocytes during Alzheimer’s progression in a mouse line. With this …
RISE-THRIVE Research Fellow Morgen VanderGiessen Joins Moore Lab
The Department would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Morgen VanderGiessen, one of eleven UW-Madison distinguished research fellows participating in the RISE-THRIVE program. She will be participating in research with Dr. Darcie Moore, …
David Herzfeld Joins Neuroscience Faculty
The Department of Neuroscience would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest faculty member, Dr. David Herzfeld. Herzfeld received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He then served as a …
Cregg Awarded Parkinson’s Foundation Junior Faculty Award
Jared Cregg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology, recently won the Parkinson’s Foundation Stanley Fahn Junior Faculty Award. The award enables early-career investigators to accelerate their Parkinson’s research programs and build …
Zhao Named as Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Xinyu Zhao, Ph.D., Professor of Neuroscience, was awarded the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This achievement recognizes distinguished scholarship and exemplary efforts in teaching and service. Zhao serves as the Jenni and Kyle Professor in Novel …
Dr. Xin Huang and Trainee Bikalpa Ghimire receive McPherson Eye Research Institute GSSI award
The McPherson Eye Research Institute has awarded Associate Professor, Dr. Xin Huang, and graduate student, Bikalpa Ghimire, the 5th annual David G. Walsh Graduate Student Support Initiative (GSSI) award. Funded by David G. Walsh Research …
Roopra Lab Discovers Arthritis Drug Provides Effective Epilepsy Treatment in Mice
Postdoctoral researcher, Olivia Hoffman, Ph.D., and Professor, Avtar Roopra, Ph.D., found that brief treatment with a drug typically prescribed for arthritis enduringly halts seizures in epileptic mice long after treatment is stopped. The drug, called …
Wang Zheng Joins Neuroscience Faculty
The Department of Neuroscience would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest faculty member, Dr. Wang Zheng. Zheng received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Alberta. He then was a post-doctoral …