Drs. Drew and Kaylar Howard, ’92, had already established a scholarship to attract the best and brightest students to the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Anil Puri, ’05, had named a learning community, a quiet place for...
Grey Matters – Suicide
Broken Bonds Suicide is a public health crisis that experts at the Medical College of Georgia are trying to change, whether it be through better education and prevention efforts or through the search for a biomarker...
Grey Matters – ALS
Action of Actin Dr. Eric Vitriol pulls up microscopy video of the actin cytoskeleton of a motor neuron, and its surface resembles the dancing edges of the sun with its solar flares. The dynamic cytoskeleton enables a...
Grey Matters – Alzheimer’s
A Critical Junction Dr. Ferenc “Frank” Deak describes a chemical synapse as “really where all the action happens in the brain,” a point where an action potential, basically an electrical message from the neuron...
Grey Matters – Spinal Cord Injury
Enhancing care of the brain The MCG Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, under the leadership of Dr. Xin-Yun Lu, department chair since July 2019, has been making strategic hires of scientists with...
From the President: Spring/ Summer 2021
Though I could easily fill this column with praise for the hard work, dedication and leadership our faculty, staff and remarkable students have demonstrated during the year-plus fight against COVID-19 — and let me be...
