Hee Jung Chung, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience at Illinois, will lecture on “The role of brain specific tyrosine phosphatase STEP in hippocampal excitability and seizures” at 4:00 pm in 2269 Beckman Institute and on Zoom …
New Research to Reduce Seizures
Congratulations to MBM Trainee Jennifer Walters and MBM faculty Hee Jung Chung, who recently discovered that TC-2153, an inhibitor of a brain-specific protein known as STEP, reduces seizures that originate in the hippocampus in mice.
Their research has been published …
MBM Faculty Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2021
Congratulations to MBM faculty who made the Fall 2021 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students at the University of Illinois! The list is based on the ratings from the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES) that students …
Hee Jung Chung to give April 14 Frontiers in MBM Lecture
Hee Jung Chung, Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, will speak on the following topic:
“Novel mechanisms by which Kv7 channel and STEP enzyme control seizure susceptibility, and future directions to employ human organoids to test the …
New Beckman grants compliment MBM research
Multiple MBM faculty and trainees will combine their efforts to facilitate two new grant programs from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Alzheimer’s Foundation, in collaboration with Beckman Institute’s Neurotechnology for Memory and Cognition research group.
Hyunjoon Kong’s research …