Simons Foundation

Remembering Gerry Fischbach: A Pioneer in Neuroscience and Autism Research

The Simons Foundation mourns the death of Gerald D. Fischbach, who died Sunday at 87. Fischbach, who went by Gerry, was a renowned neuroscientist whose transformative leadership at the Simons…

NBC Los Angeles

Stanford professor among trio awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for research into brain activity

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognized for pioneering optogenetics, which “is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.”

NPR

Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.

Georgia State News Hub

Georgia State Alumna Turns Neuroscience Training Into Career in Clinical Trials

Building on the training in neuroscience she received as an undergraduate student, Yvonne Ogbonmwan (B.S. '07) has since gone on to earn a Ph.D. and launch a successful career designing global clinical trials.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

Patricia and James Poitras launched a fellowship program for MIT graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists.

American Heart Association

New scientific research projects study heart/brain connection to migraines, headaches

DALLAS, TX and WILMINGTON, DE, Sept. 22, 2026 — For the first time, the American Headache Society and the American Heart Association are collaborating to co-fund an Innovative Project Award to advance scientific research on the effects migraine or other...

the Guardian

Scientists create mice with part-human brains

Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia