The 15th annual BSD award winners were nominated by their peers and honored at a ceremony on June 26, 2025. Congratulations to Professor Harriet de Wit for receiving the Gold Key Award!
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Congratulations to Professor Jean Decety for receiving a distinguished service professorship and to Professor Edward Vogel for receiving a new named professorship.
Studies of latrophilin, a highly conserved cell-surface receptor, shows that it plays a crucial developmental role in C. elegans through a unique interaction with a toll-like receptor.
The Neuroscience Institute is pleased to welcome six faculty memberships to the team. Emma Brett, PhD (Psychiatry), Seth Himelhoch, MD, MPH (Psychiatry), Federico Salas-Lucia, PhD (Medicine), David Satzer, MD (Neurological Surgery), James Siegler, MD (Neurology), and Rong Grace Zhai, PhD (Neurology) joined the Institute in the 2024-2025 academic year.
As part of this year’s convocation ceremonies, the PhD graduates received divisional and program awards for their research projects and scientific presentations.
Cassandra Hayne (BMB) and Scott Oakes will use the $700,000 award to study certain cellular machinery responsible for RNA splicing, and what happens when it goes awry.
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