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Spinal cord injury device tested by NBIO Professor Chet Moritz obtains FDA Approval
A medical device to restore hand function in people with severe spinal cord injuries has received FDA approval following successful testing at UW Medicine. The groundbreaking technology, which utilizes transcutaneous electrical spinal cord stimulation, was tested by a team of experts led by Dr. Chet Moritz, who holds joint professorships in Neurobiology & Biophysics, Rehabilitation Medicine, and…
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Announcing the NBIO 2024 Newsletter
We are delighted to share the 2024 end-of-year departmental newsletter with you. Click on the image below to view the full newsletter in your browser.
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Emeritus professors Merrill and Bertil Hille are featured in UW wellness news
In 2024, Emeritus professors Merrill and Bertil Hille were interviewed by the Whole U, the university’s program for health and wellness. A short excerpt is included below. Distinguished emeritus professors Merrill and Bertil Hille are partners in wellness and paragons of active — even adventurous — aging Like many retired couples of a certain age,…
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The NBIO Fall Seminar Series features impressive speakers, stimulating discussion, and, of course, cookies
This fall, the NBIO Seminar Series was launched. The first talk in the series was given by Professor Rachel Wong, former chair of Biological Structure. (NBIO was formed when the Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Biological Structure joined forces. Learn more here!) You can listen to Rachel Wong’s lecture on Circuit Assembly and Reassembly…
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NBIO Postdoctoral Scholar and Affiliate Professor part of consortium that has mapped the complete connectome of the fly brain
The synaptic connectivity of neurons is fundamental to how they function. Extracting this information for entire brains is an extremely challenging task. Today, the largest map of synaptic connectivity between neurons has been published in a special issue at Nature. 12 papers describe and analyze the first whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly produced by…
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Assistant Professor Astra Bryant receives prestigious NIAID New Innovators Award
We are thrilled to announce that Assistant Professor Astra Bryant has received the NIAID New Innovators Award. This award ($1.5 million over 5 years) is given to early stage investigators of “exceptional creativity who propose novel, original and insightful research concepts with the potential to produce a major impact, test scientific paradigms, or advance key…
Dissertation Defense
Image: MouseRGC-bipolar cells and PSD95 – Rachel Wong