Past News

Purdue professor receives grant to study fragile X syndrome

October 27, 2017

Alexander Chubykin, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Purdue University, has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study impaired visual learning caused by fragile X syndrome.

Purdue professor receives grant to study fragile X syndrome

Purdue startup advances simple blood, urine tests to detect, monitor a myriad of early-stage cancers

October 27, 2017

Researchers at Purdue-affiliated company who discovered a way to detect and monitor breast cancer using a simple blood test and bladder cancer using a urine test believe the process can be expanded to diagnose a myriad of early-stage cancers.

Purdue startup advances simple blood, urine tests to detect, monitor a myriad of early-stage cancers

2M to study “Lead Exposure and Beta-amyloid Transport by Brain Barriers

October 27, 2017

Dr. Wei Zheng, Professor of Health Sciences & Toxicology and a member of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience (PIIN), and his team were awarded a $2M grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences entitled “Lead Exposure and Beta-amyloid Transport by Brain Barriers.”

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PIIN Member, Dr. Sangha, elected as an Officer of the Executive Committee of the Pavlovian Society

October 27, 2017

Dr. Susan Sangha, a member of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience (PIIN) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences was recently elected an Officer of the Executive Committee of the Pavlovian Society.

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PIIN Featured Faculty Member: Ulrike Dydak

October 27, 2017

Ulrike Dydak is Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Director of the Purdue Life Science MRI Facility.

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“The Neural Encoding and Decoding with Deep Learning for Dynamic Natural Vision”

October 27, 2017

Dr. Zhongming Liu, a member of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience (PIIN) and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering recently published in the scientific journal, Cerebral Cortex.

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Behavioral & Neural Systems of Learning & Memory also being offered in the Spring 2018

October 27, 2017

The course will primarily be a mixture of lecture and roundtable research article discussions focused on the neural systems and behavioral plasticity involved in learning and memory.

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Researchers in various studies looking for participants

October 26, 2017

Here you will find a list of research studies that currently are looking for participants.

Researchers in various studies looking for participants

Neuroscience: Where engineering meets biology

October 26, 2017

Integrated, holistic research efforts are key to success, and the Weldon School's close ties to the Purdue Institute for Integrated Neuroscience (PINN) demonstrate that engineering and biology make an excellent fit.

Neuroscience: Where engineering meets biology

Researchers demonstrate ‘mind-reading’ brain-decoding tech

October 24, 2017

Researchers have demonstrated how to decode what the human brain is seeing by using artificial intelligence to interpret fMRI scans from people watching videos, representing a sort of mind-reading technology.

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