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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded Carnegie Mellon biology professor Nathan Urban a $979,000 grant for his research in neuron synchronization.

Urban, who has been at Carnegie Mellon since 2002, teaches Biology of the Brain (03-360) and Neural Plasticity in Sensory and Motor Systems (03-761).

Urban collaborated with G. Bard Ermentrout, a professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s mathematics department.

NIMH and NSF provided the grant so that Urban and Ermentrout could further their research, which may help to determine the causes of certain brain disorders, including schizophrenia.

The University has played a role in Urban’s research. “Carnegie Mellon made a...

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