Dr. Robert Fettiplace has been awarded the 2019 Passano Prize. Since 1945 the Passano Foundation has annually given an award for “endeavors with clinical applications” through Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Medical …
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Gail Robertson to Receive 2019 Kenneth S. Cole Award
Dr. Gail A. Robertson will receive the 2019 Kenneth S. Cole Award from the Biophysical Society. The selection committee writes that “Gail embodies the spirit and intent of the Cole Award, and is recognized for …
Donata Oertel Elected as AAAS Fellow
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected Dr. Donata Oertel from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an AAAS Fellow. Dr. Oertel, Neuroscience Professor and Mary Herman and Lucien Rubinstein Distinguished Chair of …
Moore Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Darcie Moore is the recipient of an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for High-Risk, High-Reward Research. Her project is titled “The Mechanisms and Functional Role of the Asymmetric Segregation of Cellular Cargoes in Stem Cells.” …
Chapman Wins Pew Innovation Fund Award
The Pew Charitable Trust announced that Dr. Ed Chapman, Professor of Neuroscience in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, is one of a dozen leading “Innovation Fund” researchers who will collaborate …
Chiang, Chang, and Jackson Featured in Cover of Journal of Neuroscience Vol 38 Issue 32
Chung-Wei Chiang, Che-Wei Chang, and Meyer Jackson decorate the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 38,Issue 32, (August 08, 2018)! The title of the paper that accompanies the cover is “The Transmembrane Domain of …
Chapman Awarded 2019 Sir Bernard Katz Award
Ed Chapman receives the 2019 Sir Bernard Katz Award of the Biophysical Society! Ed Chapman has been chosen to be the 2019 recipient of the Sir Bernard Katz Award of the Exocytosis/Endocytosis subgroup of the …
Xinyu Zhao Receives the National Fragile X Foundation Research Award
The National Fragile X Foundation (NFXF) Board of Directors has awarded Dr. Xinyu Zhao the NFXF Research Award for outstanding contributions to the understanding of Fragile X. Fragile X syndrome is the leading inherited cause …
Robert Fettiplace Chosen as Kavli Laureate
On May 31 the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced that Robert Fettiplace would share the $1 million Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with James Hudspeth of Rockefeller University and Christine Petit of the Collége …
Ari Rosenberg Receives Shaw Scientist Award
Dr. Ari Rosenberg won a Shaw Scientist Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation! This award of $40,000/year for five years from the James D. Shaw and Dorothy Shaw fund is intended both to advance research …