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.
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.
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.
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, […]
Papouin, an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, is acknowledged for his extraordinary efforts in guiding the career development of trainees.
Professors Burkhalter and Padoa-Schioppa are selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Song, who is completing her PhD at the University of Chicago, will focus on developing a computational understanding of high-level cognition.
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The award acknowledges the most original and important accomplishments in Neuroscience research at WashU by a predoctoral student or postdoctoral fellow.
Assistant Professor Tavoni studies how information is encoded and processed in neural networks and the mechanisms that optimize these functions.