Fettiplace Awarded the 2019 Passano Prize

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …