McGovern Institute

Feng Zhang, an expert on genetic control of brain function, will join the McGovern Institute in spring 2011.

Feng Zhang, expert on genetic control of brain function, to join BCS faculty

August 20, 2010

Sarah Weigelt, a Simon's Initiative for Autism and the Brain at MIT postdoctoral fellow, poses with her Otto Hahn medal.

Postdoc awarded Otto Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society

Honored for thesis on neural correlates of visual illusions

July 13, 2010

McGovern Institute video wins CINE Golden Eagle Award

July 7, 2010

Many of Guoping Feng's lab members have joined him in moving to MIT, and the new lab at the McGovern Institute is already up and running.

Guoping Feng, expert on synapses and psychiatric disorders, joins MIT faculty

July 7, 2010

McGovern Institute video wins Telly Award

Given top honors in fundraising category

June 22, 2010

Yingxi Lin, an assistant professor in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, has been named a winner of the 2010 John Merck Scholar award.

Yingxi Lin named a John Merck scholar

Awarded a four-year, $300,000 grant

June 10, 2010

McGovern Institute for Brain Research launches new web site

Redesign comes as institute nears its 10th anniversary

March 18, 2010

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a powerful and noninvasive method for studying human brain activity.

McGovern Institute to acquire new brain imaging technology

March 9, 2010

New technique offers a more detailed view of brain activity

‘Cleverly designed' MRI sensors detect dopamine, offering a high-resolution look at what’s happening inside the brain.

March 1, 2010

The McGovern Institute for Brain Research will award this year's Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience to Lily and Yuh-Nung Jan of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, San Francisco.

McGovern Institute honors pioneers in neurogenetics

The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT announced today that Lily Jan and Yuh-Nung Jan will be the joint winners of the 2010 Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience.

February 12, 2010

Tomaso Poggio receives Okawa Prize for work in computational neuroscience

October 22, 2009

A head of time

For the first time, neuroscientists find brain cells that keep track of time with extreme precision.

October 20, 2009

Ed Boyden holding his most recent optogenetic device; an array of optical elements that can turn on and off individual neurons in sixteen different points with the brain.

McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program funds three new projects

The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT today announced three new collaborative funding awards as part of the McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program.

September 18, 2009

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