Oscar Marín elected Fellow of the Royal Society 11.05.2022 CDN and MRC CNDD Director, Professor Oscar Marín, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in recognition of his ... Read more
Control of interneuron numbers in striatal networks 10.05.2022 Brain function requires appropriate numbers of different subtypes of neurons, but how these numbers are established remains ... Read more
Cell diversity in the human ganglionic eminences 16.12.2021 Researchers have uncovered the molecular logic controlling the development of GABAergic neurons in the human telencephalon and ... Read more
New strategy for circuit assembly 04.12.2020 A new study led by David Exposito-Alonso, a joint PhD student of the Marín and Rico labs, shows how subcellular sorting of ... Read more
Oscar Marín elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences 13.05.2020 Oscar Marín, Director of the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology and the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, has been ... Read more
A stochastic model of cortical neurogenesis 18.12.2019 The cerebral cortex contains multiple hierarchically organised areas with distinctive cytoarchitectonical patterns, but the ... Read more
Oscar Marín receives Remedios Caro Almela Award 18.10.2019 On 18th October 2019, the prestigious Remedios Caro Almela Award in Developmental Neurobiology was awarded to Professor Oscar ... Read more
Wellcome Investigator Award in Science for Oscar Marín 31.05.2019 The Wellcome Trust, a global charity committed to realising the full potential of biomedical research to improve health, has ... Read more
Coupling migration and axon targeting 21.06.2018 For many years, scientists have assumed that developing brains are wired through an orderly sequence of developmental steps, ... Read more
Balancing numbers of cortical neurons 30.05.2018 The cerebral cortex is the largest region of the human brain and is responsible for many of our advanced abilities such as ... Read more
Oscar Marín awarded ERC Advanced Grant 12.04.2018 Professor Oscar Marín has been awarded a €2.5M grant by the European Research Council for research into the structure of a ... Read more
New insights into interneuron diversity 22.02.2018 Researchers from the laboratory of Oscar Marín from the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology and the MRC Centre for ... Read more
Oscar Marín receives Ramón y Cajal Medal 01.11.2017 The Royal Academy of Sciences, meeting in plenary session on June 28, 2017, agreed to award the Ramón y Cajal Medal, with ... Read more
A little inhibition shapes the brain’s GPS 10.04.2017 Researchers from King’s College London have discovered a specific class of inhibitory neurons in the cerebral cortex which plays ... Read more
A molecular switch helps interneurons find their way in the cortex 31.01.2017 Researchers from King’s College London have identified a molecule which attracts interneurons as they migrate within the ... Read more
Neuron Voices - Organizing Brain Science on an International Scale 03.11.2016 The organization of neuroscience on an international scale is discussed In this Voices article from Neuron. Examples from ... Read more
New Fellowships for Fong Kuan and Kinga 01.09.2016 Fong has been awarded an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship and a Marie-Curie Fellowship. Over the next two years, Fong Kuan will use ... Read more
Molecular 'tuning' of cortical interneuron properties 11.09.2015 Computers are often used as a metaphor for the brain, with logic boards and microprocessors representing neural circuits and ... Read more
Oscar Marín awarded the 2014 Prix Roger De Spoelberch 17.04.2015 The 2014 Prix Roger De Spoelberch, which recognises exceptional contributions to the study of neurodegenerative and ... Read more
Oscar Marín receives the Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society 09.05.2014 The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has announced the appointment of 28 new Royal Society Wolfson ... Read more
Oscar Marín receives a Senior Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust 05.05.2014 The Wellcome Trust, a global charity committed to realising the full potential of biomedical research to improve health, has ... Read more
Oscar Marín appointed new Director of the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London 11.12.2013 Professor Oscar Marín has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology in the School ... Read more