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Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2019

Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute and Leica Microsystems Establish Center of Excellence in Microscopy

Leica Microsystems establishes a Center of Excellence at the NRI.


Monday, Aug. 26, 2019

Texas Children’s hosts an inaugural family conference for EBF3-HADD syndrome

Texas Children's and NRI host the first ever family conference for EBF3-HADDS syndrome.


Friday, Aug. 02, 2019

Rett Syndrome Symposium and Workshop

Rett Syndrome Symposium and Workshop


Tuesday, Jul. 23, 2019

ASHG honors Huda Zoghbi with Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Huda Zoghbi, MD, as the 2019 recipient of the Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award. Dr. Zoghbi is the director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, a professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.


External Link
https://bridgesyngap.org/houston-family-meetup/
Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2019

SYNGAP1 Houston Family Meeting

Texas Children’s is hosting the SYNGAP1 Foundation’s Houston Family Meet this year and it will be held at Feigin Center in August.


Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2019

Lauren Miterko receives the prestigious Masao Ito award

Graduate student in Dr. Roy SIllitoe's lab is the winner of a prestigious award from the Society for Research on Cerebellum and Ataxias.


Tuesday, Jun. 11, 2019

BrightFocus Foundation honors Dr. Huda Zoghbi

BrightFocus Foundation honors Dr. Huda Zoghbi for her dedication to fight and end Alzheimer's disease.


Tuesday, May. 28, 2019

American Pediatrics Society honors Dr. Huda Zoghbi

Dr. Huda Zoghbi receives the 2019 Norman J. Siegel New Member Outstanding Science Award.


Friday, May. 24, 2019

Dr. Sardiello receives The 2019 Michael E. DeBakey M.D. Awards for Excellence in Research

Dr. Sardiello receives the 2019 Michael E. DeBakey Award for Excellence in Research.


Monday, Apr. 22, 2019

McGinley receives John S. Dunn Research Collaborative Award

Dr. Matthew McGinley, assistant professor at Baylor College and investigator at Cain Foundation Labs, receives a research seed grant to develop a virtual-reality based platform to better understand mechanisms that integrate audio information with the brain’s broader cognitive maps and in the process improve technologies like cochlear implants.


External Link
https://www.duncannri.org/
Friday, Mar. 15, 2019

The Search for a Cure: Catching up with Henry & Dr. Zoghbi

When Dr. Huda Zoghbi left war-torn Lebanon in the 1970s to attend medical school in the U.S., little did she know that her journey would bring her to Texas Children’s Hospital. Today, she is a world-renowned neurogeneticist and director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI), where she leads a team dedicated to finding more effective treatments for a host of devastating neurological disorders.


External Link
https://www.bcm.edu/news/awards-honors-faculty-staff/dr-hsiao-tuan-chao-named-n…
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2019

Dr. Hsiao-Tuan Chao named new McNair Scholar

Dr. Hsiao-Tuan Chao, assistant professor of pediatrics and molecular and human genetics, faculty at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, and associate program director of the basic neuroscience pathway in pediatric neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named the newest McNair Scholar at Baylor. She is the College’s first M.D./Ph.D. McNair Student Scholar Alumni to also be named a McNair Scholar.


Monday, Mar. 04, 2019

CURE Epilepsy’s Day of Science: March 30

CURE Epilepsy’s Day of Science


Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018

Dr. Zoghbi elected as a fellow of the NAI

Dr. Huda Zoghbi elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors this week.


External Link
https://nri.texaschildrens.org/news/leo%E2%80%99s-story-our-superhero
Wednesday, Nov. 07, 2018

Our superhero son's diagnostic odyssey

In this blog, a dad describes his ten-year old son's rare regressive medical condition and their medical odyssey to get a right diagnosis for him.


Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018

NRI hosts the fourth biennial symposium

NRI's fourth biennial symposium and workshop was focused on "Neuropsychiatry".


Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018

Dr. Hari Krishna Yalamanchili receives the 2018 NRI Zoghbi Scholar Award

Dr. Hari Krishna Yalamanchili receives the 2018 NRI Zoghbi Scholar Award.


Wednesday, Oct. 03, 2018

SYNGAP1 Center of Excellence at Texas Children’s Hospital receives research grant

Jimmy Holder Jr., M.D./Ph.D., a pediatric neurologist and scientist at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, was awarded a $25,000 research grant from the Bridge the Gap – SYNGAP Education and Research Foundation.


Tuesday, Oct. 02, 2018

Dr. Hsiao-Tuan Chao awarded NIH Director's High-Risk, High-Reward grant

Dr. Hsiao Tuan Chao awarded the National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award from the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.


Tuesday, Jul. 03, 2018

Dr. Hsiao-Tuan Chao receives a Child Neurology Foundation grant to study pediatric epilepsy and intellectual disability

Dr. Hsiao-Tuan Chao, MD/PhD, clinical child neurologist and associate director of the child neurology residency program at Texas Children’s Hospital was awarded the Child Neurology Foundation’s 2018 Pediatric Epilepsy Research Foundation Grant.