Category: Awards & Honors

Research soaring with the Eagles

Jason Yi is a man with short dark hair and wearing a tux. He is pictured with Swoop, the mascot of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Jason Yi, PhD, received a $400,000 pilot grant from the Eagles Autism Foundation to advance a new approach to treating autism spectrum disorder.

Franken awarded Young Investigator Grant from BBRF

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Tom Franken, MD, PhD, has received a Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) to fund a new direction in his research on the neural mechanisms of perception.

Dhanerawala earns American Heart Association fellowship

Zahra Dhanerawala is a woman with dark hair and wearing glasses.

Zahra Dhanerawala, an MD/PhD student in the lab of Edward Han, PhD, was awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship to further her research into the connection between the hippocampus and memory.

Working within and beyond WashU

Martha Bagnall is a white woman with short brown hair standing with her arms crossed.

Martha Bagnall, PhD, is the principal investigator on a $5.2 million NIH grant involving collaborators at four universities.

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)

Dr. Adam Kepecs is a white man with short dark hair wearing a blue shirt in front of a white board with its contents blurred.

Adam Kepecs, PhD, a professor of neuroscience and a professor of psychiatry at WashU Medicine, 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.