Martha Bagnall, PhD, is the principal investigator on a $5.2 million NIH grant involving collaborators at four universities.
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Category: Awards & Honors
Prufrock named to WashU Medicine Academy of Educators
Kristen Prufrock, PhD, was inducted Oct. 15 into the Academy of Educators at Washington University School of Medicine.
CTCN postdoc fellow earns NIH grant
Leandro Fosque, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience (CTCN) at Washington University, has been awarded an F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award.
Kepecs awarded NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (Links to an external site)
Adam Kepecs, PhD, the Robert J. Terry Professor of Neuroscience and a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been selected for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award, to study how the brain’s neural circuits decode signals from the immune system and orchestrate adjustments in behavior and motivation.
Franken and Wessel win NIH grant to study how artificial and biological brains process video imagery (Links to an external site)
WashU assistant professor of neuroscience Tom Franken and professor of physics Ralf Wessel have secured a $427,625 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how artificial neural networks and primate brains process and predict video imagery.
David Kim to receive Feldman Fellowship Award at COBRAS 3rd Annual Symposium
On Thursday, June 6th, David Kim, an undergraduate researcher with the Chen Lab, will be awarded the 2024-2025 COBRAS Feldman Fellowship to conduct research on sleep regulation and functions.
Now accepting applications for WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award! (Links to an external site)
The goal of the $10,000 WashU Medicine Bold Pioneer Award is to recognize and encourage early career investigators who have demonstrated bold, pioneering research that is high-risk by virtue of being fundamentally different from standard approaches. The intent is to encourage scientific research investigators to challenge status quo approaches by developing fundamentally different methods, approaches, […]
Thomas Papouin receives 2024 Dean’s Impact Award (Links to an external site)
Papouin, an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, is acknowledged for his extraordinary efforts in guiding the career development of trainees.
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa and Andreas Burkhalter elected to AAAS (Links to an external site)
Professors Burkhalter and Padoa-Schioppa are selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hayoung Song to join WashU as CTCN Fellow
Song, who is completing her PhD at the University of Chicago, will focus on developing a computational understanding of high-level cognition.