Neurobiology Research

Beth Stevens receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

Dr. Stevens was one of 96 researchers to receive the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

Click here for the White House Press Release.

Read the White House blog and hear Dr. Stevens and her fellow awardees talk about their work.

Check out the profile of Beth Stevens in the Brockton Enterprise.

Visit the Stevens lab website.

The Boston Globe and CBS news reported on new research from the lab of Gabriel Corfas, PhD, which has found that mice raised in isolation not only behave differently, but they have thinner insulation around brain cells in a key region of the brain.    

Read the Boston Globe Article

Scientists restore basic vision in mice

by Meghan Weber | Boston Children's Hospital | featured in Harvard Gazette 5/22/12

Larry Benowitz and colleagues at Boston Children’s Hospital showed that a three-pronged intervention can restore some elements of vision in mice blinded by severe optic nerve damage: depth perception, optomotor response, and synchronized circadian activity.

Ear researchers think like engineers                                                            

By Carolyn Y. Johnson | Boston Globe | October 24, 2011

Collaborations between Harvard Medical scientists and Swiss researchers will bring together engineers and neuroscientists to tackle a range of sensory and motor problems.